So I picked up this game that was suppose to be the hardest most control broken thing out there...*oh with such an advanced gameplay and what not. Right...what is so hard about looking at colors to determine how to counter? What is so hard about MOVING the camera around? (yes you do have PLENTY of time to do so) The beast ridin' is pretty easy. You can get knocked down quick if so you per se JUST STAND THERE SO MOVE FAT BOY! :D. This game is NOT crap yet it is not the best thing out there yet it has become a favorite of mine for trying something else. A damn shame people listen to these pro reviewers who have no damn game/easily dismiss something if it isn't easy as Kingdom Hearts.

I do have complaints.
1) NO MULTIPLAYER!
2) NOT ENOUGH BEASTS! (5 beasts)
and no music/which I substitute with death/thrash/heavy metal either way :D

PLEASE fellow gamers TRY this game out you will see it is not a bad game with COMPLICATED controls. It is a very decent title that would have spawned a sequel (*Golden Axe 1!) if it wasn't for all these reviewers full of crap.

Official rating: 3.7 but 4 is closer than 3.

This name would've been more appropriate. This game is abysmal!!!! This is one of the worst games I have ever rented. Thank God it was rented on a game pass and I didn't pay cash for the whole 20 minutes of my life that I wasted on playing this crap. It is better to rinse your eyes with sand and crushed glass than play this game even as a trial. This is a tragedy to gaming. It deserves ZERO stars. i believe it is out for both consoles... avoid it as if your life was depending upon it. This makes Vampire Rain look like Game of the Year!

The reviewer has no clue what he is talking about. Just about everything he says in this article is completely false, except the fact that he can't handle the awesome combat system in this game and resorts to button mashing.

The controls are fluid. The beasts are awesome. The graphics are on par with any current next gen title and have their own You need the beasts to help you with some of the bigger mobs in this game so you should certainly "bother" with them. Hell they are a big part of the game like the original. In fact there is plenty of tribute to the original as one could notice if they knew what to look for.

I was addicted like crazy to the original. In fact when it came out in the arcade in the states and I moved to japan I was dissapointed it wasn't in the arcades there... Then I found out it had been on home systems for over a year on the sega genesis and was the reason I purchased that system.

This game has a complex combat system that must be learned and mastered. It can be frustrating if you mash buttons and score lower than a C grade, but thats what makes the replayability of this classic game great. I played 4 levels last night and the story btw is awesome. Too many rpg's have similar/lame stories and this one changes that...

This sets the new benchmark for rpg's in fact it could be said that golden axe may have inspired many rpg's that we see today. I love it when a game is innovative and the color coded combat system makes things interesting instead of a bunch of button mashing. or mashing the same "uber" attack over and over to kill mobs. Please note developers we are sick of your cookie cutter B.S.

I can't wait to get home to play it tonight and its been a long time since a game has done that for me. In fact i've played so many games for so many years most of them jade me.

The only thing missing in this game would be multiplayer coop online. (hard to do local/split screen sucks anyway.)