Batora: Lost Haven Reviews
With its combat forcing you to move between a twin-stick shooting style and slashing, Batora manages to keep itself interesting and varied
Batora: Lost Haven is an Italian production that convinces and satisfies from start to finish. The lively art style and varied gameplay make the work of Stormind Games one of the most appreciable Italian titles of recent years.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Batora: Lost Haven is a thrilling romp of fast-paced carnage. The combat system is a blast and left me constantly engaged, gripping my total and utter attention. Once beaten, I immediately hopped back into New Game+ for another round.
Batora: Lost Haven's consistently challenging battles and puzzles are rewarding and its game-altering decisions are the icing on the cake.
Batora: Lost Haven is a competent and mostly enjoyable action game. It has one big idea, the two natures of both Avril and her enemies, but never uses it in any truly unique ways. After a few hours, only the boss battles manage to break up the monotony.
Can you use Avril's duality to save the universe?
Overall, despite some questionable design elements, Batora: Lost Haven is a solid action RPG once given time to properly gel.
Batora: Lost Haven is an intense and compelling journey for every fantasy lover, where choices come with consequences and you feel attached to Avril and her adventure.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Batora: Lost Haven is both a hack n' slash and a twin stick shooter, depending on the enemies we have to face, and very often it is both genres mixed together. The main component of the game is the fighting system forcing you to frantically switch combat modes, but there is also an exciting story to follow, with charismatic partners and some moral choices that affect both plot development and character growth. A great isometric action RPG, with awesome boss battles and multiple endings to increase its longevity.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Batora doesn't re-invent the wheel but it does have some quite interesting narrative beats, although the story can be a little bit predictable the mythology works great in a lot of aspects.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Batora is extremely enjoyable on Nintendo Switch, with all the previously released content ready to go from the start.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Batora: Lost Haven is okay. It presents a great cinematic presentation, but the gameplay doesn’t always hit the mark. This feels like quite a divisive game. Some players will really enjoy the simple action formula and moral choice system and have a pretty fun gaming weekend with this. Others, I can imagine, will see this as underdeveloped, the humour graining and just not as good as other action games in the genre. A demo would have really helped make this decision. I personally recommend it. There is much to criticize, but I sensed a lot of effort from the developers to put this project together, which still held my attention. It probably helps that I also really like isometric dungeon crawlers. If the developers ever follow up with this formula, I would still be interested in what they come up with