BloodRayne Betrayal: Fresh Bites

WayTooManyGamesLeo Faria

7.5/10

I am starting to like the concept behind publisher Ziggurat Games’ vision. Their whole schtick is to revive long forgotten franchises from twenty, thirty, or even forty years ago by remastering and re-releasing them to modern platforms. One of the most notable titles in their portfolio at the moment is BloodRayne, an edgelord-as-hell action franchise that spawned a handful of games and even a terrible Uwe Boll movie back in the day. It also spawned a 2D side-scrolling spinoff called BloodRa...

Nintendo World ReportZachary Miller

6/10

The combat is generally enjoyable, but the scoring system is never explained and appears to require superhuman skill (or far more practice than I’m willing to entertain) to get good grades in. The platforming is generally miserable. The bosses are a lot of fun, though. Betrayal looks and sounds great. More often than not, though, it feels like work. Tedious, exhausting work. And 38-year-old Zach doesn’t have the patience for that anymore.

KeenGamerDakota Gordon

5.5/10

Revived and reanimated, BloodRayne Betrayal: Fresh Bites returns for the modern generation with bloody bliss! Developer WayForward is tasked with reworking their 2011 hack n' slash title to greater effect. Whether or not it succeeds may depend solely on one's tolerance for archaic touch-ups.

Checkpoint GamingTom Quirk

5/10

Ten years ago, WayForward released BloodRayne Betrayal, a 2D hack n’ slash spin-off from the usually-3D BloodRayne franchise. While the series has been mostly dormant since then, the recent PC remasters of the original BloodRayne and its sequel have led the way for BloodRayne Betrayal to also receive an updated port. Thus, we have BloodRayne Betrayal: Fresh Bites, which brings with it all-new voice acting and a re-balanced difficulty setting. Although these additions are certainly welcome, ...

TechRaptorTyler Chancey

3/10

BloodRayne Betrayal: Fresh Bites is a barebones remaster of a middling action experience that does not hold up by today's standards.

The Nerd StashSiddhartha Munuswamy

Unscored

It isn’t a terrible game. If anything, the BloodRayne Betrayal remaster could and should have done a lot more to fix some of the issues that were present even in the original game. Platforming is the biggest offender here – and there’s, unfortunately, a little too much of it throughout the short runtime. With this in mind, BloodRayne Betrayal: Fresh Bites does feel like a missed opportunity at reviving a classic from the Xbox Live Arcade days.

Elsewhere on DigitallyDownloaded.net, I’m doing a series on games that I’m still playing ten years later. In that series, I highlight games that I don’t necessarily think are the greatest works of art of all time, but I’m still coming back to them for having a rare quality that makes them endure. BloodRayne Betrayal is in some ways the opposite. While it was never one of the greatest games of all time, back when it was new it was a standout example of what would become the future; the ability for mid-tier and independent video games to flourish, free of the absolute reliance on the ret…