November 6, 2009 - Mediocre - Coming in at 800 Microsoft Points, Axel & Pixel is difficult to recommend. Even though it's got loads of personality and it fully embraces its own craziness, it fails to be a sturdy combination of different game genres, and is just not fun enough to justify hunting through all those pixels.

October 22, 2009 - Mediocre - If it were a 400-point trifle, you could almost forgive Axel & Pixel for all that it lacks. But for the full Xbox Live price tag of 800 points, you expect a little more than the couple of hours of diversion that this romp through dreamland has to offer.

October 14, 2009 - Mediocre - Axel & Pixel is cute, but not very original. If you really must pay to play a game that would otherwise be available for free on newgrounds.com, go ahead. But we'd rather save our money on the little artsy-fartsy games that try and actually do something new, such as Braid or Lucidity.