Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid is an interesting fighter that I'm glad exists to a certain capacity.

I believe having something as Power Rangers deserves to have good games/ games that are unique and fufilling to fans is always a good thing.

I will say the definitive and only way to play this was getting the SUPER EDITION, as I could not have imagine getting the regular game because of how barebones it would've been, atleast here it feels like a proper fighting game roster.

The game has a total of 5 modes:

1. Story Mode
2. Online
3. Arcade mode
4. Vs Mode
5. Practice mode
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The story mode consists of adapting the Shattered Grid storyline except sort of halfassing it too. The gist of the story is that in an alternate timeline, the Green Ranger Tommy Oliver (RIP Jason David Frank) remains evil due to a sad tragic backstory that leads to him killing Rita Repolsa, and later combing his Green Dragon Ranger Power with the Tiger Zord Power to turn himself into a White Green Dragon Tiger Ranger, who he changes his name to LORD DRAKKON.

Lord Drakkon has the ability to travel to different dimensions thanks to his ranger army, which consists of MASTODON MERCENARIES (Black Mighty Morphin Rangers with Rifles and vests) and his main commander, the Ranger slayer (Pink Mighty Morphine Power Ranger, Kimberly).

They travel through different ranger dimensions and world to take out and conquer all rangers of different worlds, with the help of Goldar (who has a black color variant).

Jason (MIGHTY MORPHIN RED), Trini in Dragon Armor (ORIGINAL MIGHTY MORPHIN YELLOW [ RIP Thuy Tang], Kimberly (MIGHTY MORPHIN PINK), JEN SCOTTS (Time Force Red), and Lauren Shiba (FEMALE SAMURAI RED RANGER) travel throughout the worlds to find and save other rangers in order to stand a chance against Drakkon and his forces.

Along the way they meet Gia Morgan (MEGAFORCE YELLOW), Kat (SPD KAT RANGER), Udonna (Mystic Ranger), Anubus Kruger (SPD SHADOW RANGER), Cenzoic Blue Ranger (Ranger from Rita Repolsas past who was killed, later became the ranger morph for Billy Cranston in the 2017 movie), Michael "Mike" Corbett (Magna Defender from Lost Galaxy), Trey of Triforia (Gold Ranger), and some rangers who aren't playable and only seen within cutscenes.


Jason, Trini, Kimberly fight against alternate Kimberly and snap her out of her mind control, Tommy Oliver (Green Ranger) confronts Drakkon in a 1 on 1 final battle, and defeats him in his first form, and then in his super final form. Drakkon is the defeated, the timelines and realities are restored.

The story ends with all the rangers leaving for their world, and we end on original Earth where Tommy talks with Kimberly and he reflects on how he could've become Drakkon, and Kim tells him not to worry since her, Jason, Trini, Zack, and Billy all have is back.

Alternate Kim also appears for the final panel shot of them looking over the world. (Which confuses me, and makes me wonder what she's doing with the original group, maybe she went back to fix her world, or she stayed with them, I'm assuming the first option since it would be weird to have 2 the same person in the same world).
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So yeah fine enough story, I will say though, it's really odd that they shoved more fights in such a strange way that doesn't make sense in context.

The game sometimes has you playing as the hero with some dialogue parts that leads to a fight, and after winning said fight so for example:

You're playing as Gia Morgan (MEGAFORCE YELLOW) and you actually fight Drakkon pretty early on, when you win with Gia more dialogue appears, and after that... you play as Drakkon... and fight against Gia.

So instead of just having a cutscene or having it so you fight a stronger version of Drakkon who can 1 shot you or is programmed to defeat you, you instead have the player control Drakkon to extend fights. Which makes me think there was originally 2 story modes:

1. For team Heroes - Standard Story above
2. Team Drakkon - Where you need to conquer all rangers.

I'm assuming, it's just weird that they do that.
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The gameplay consists of a 3v3 where you select 3 different characters and fight (Similar to say Street Fighter x Tekken, Blazblue, or Dragon Ball Fighterz where you're able to Tag-in-Tag-out)
Each character having unique abilities and ultimate moves (Some better than others, also for some reason some look cinematic and awesome like proper finishers, while some look like powered up super attacks, not really anything ULTIMATE about it, especially Drakkon even though he's the primary antagonist).
The game features Zords that appear to help you by attacking your opponents when you're in a spliff or want to deal extra damage to your opponents.
The maps to choose from are unique to a point, though have a bit a discrepancy in terms of having the SPD Zord and Giant Goldar fighting in the background... while being able to select them as Zords in the character select. It's a descrepancy because the way Zords work is they use special abilites or attack with swords or punches. The issue is that on the specific map I'm mentioning, Goldar and the SPD Zord are fighting in the background and say your opponent is using Goldar, his fist will come from the side which is just strange cause the developers never thought to change the background characters, incase one were chose Goldar and the SPD Zord (visual discrepancy, not that big of a deal but still dumb).
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An elephant in the room I need to address is...the AI

JESUS is this A.I. Unforgiving and tedious and cheap, the worst being Jason Lee Scott (Mighty Morphin Red). He is way too fast and pulls off death combos that are inescapable because the creators never thought to add a recovery or counter.
This doesn't just happen with Jason, this happens with all the A.I. in the game, making it very unfun, and if you're a kid wanting to go into this trying to beat the story, the experience level is far too advanced.

My thought as to what happened with the A.I.:

When this game first came out the A.I. must've been laughably bad, so they most likely used the gameplay style for expert skilled players as the basis for the A.I. when update released.

Problem is now the game becomes WAYYY too difficult for new comers that it almost seems like they updated the A.I. Difficulty, but never properly balanced it based upon ingame set difficulty.

The lack of recovery or proper counters in the game is a big issues as characters like: Eric Myers (Quantum Ranger), Mastodon Sentry, Michael "Mike" Corbett (Magna Defender), and Trini have this super powerful X attack that can be spammed in a 2 second interval.

Quantum Ranger - Arsenal Gun/Sword, if you spam X he does a 3 quick last blasts, however if X is held, he does this gigantic ki blasts that DOES NOT HAVE A LIMIT OF USAGE or RECHARGE, THAT CAN BE SPAMMED EVERY 2 SECONDS, PUTTING YOUR OPPONENT IN A DEATH LOOP.

Mastodon Mercenary - Pressing X causes him to use a 3 round burst that ALWAYS KNOCKS YOUR OPPONENT DOWN and you can continue to spam it, and it knocks them down every time and takes away health.

Magna Defender - Press X allows him to use his laser shotgun which (while only close up) can be spammed and blast opponents away and knock them down until you defeat them.

MIGHTY MORPHIN YELLOW RANGER DRAGON ARMOR - Pressing X causes Trini to use this laser that lasts for 3 seconds that does a lot of damage, because again... the developers decided not to add a cool down time for said attack or a limit, you can spam it infinitely and cheese any opponent.

The biggest issue is that knock down time doesn't give you an opportunity to counter, nor escape a loop of spam or death combos.

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The game has a nice variety of rangers but I feel like playing SUPER EDITION that the roster that this "definitive version" has, should've been the basic roster to start later obtained more DLC RANGERS.

The character roster consists of:

- Jason Lee Scott (MIGHTY MORPHIN RED RANGER) {MIGHTY MORPHIN} [Base Roster]

- Tommy Oliver (DRAGON ZORD/MIGHTY MORPHIN GREEN RANGER / TIGER ZORD/MIGHTY MORPHIN WHITE RANGER)
{MIGHTY MORPHIN}
[Base roster - Green Ranger, DLC Suit - White Ranger/Tiger Zord (Skin Sold Separately on Marketplace not included in Super Edition)]

- Trini Kwan (MIGHTY MORPHIN YELLOW RANGER DRAGON ARMOR) {MIGHTY MORPHIN}
[included in updated 1, now is in Base Roster for Super Edition]

- Kimberly Hart (RANGER SLAYER/ MIGHTY MORPHIN PINK RANGER) {MIGHTY MORPHIN}
[Base Roster, Mighty Morphin Pink suit/Original Kimberly - Free DLC included in SUPER EDITION]

- Kat Manx (SPD KAT RANGER) {SPD} [Base Roster]

- Gia Morgan (MEGAFORCE YELLOW) {MEGAFORCE/SUPER MEGAFORCE} [Base Roster]

- Michael "Mike" Corbett (MAGNA DEFENDER) {LOST GALAXY} [Base Roster]

- Mastodon Sentry {MIGHTY MORPHIN} [Base Roster]

- Udonna (MYSTIC RANGER) {MYSTIC FORCE} [Base Roster - added in Update 1, Base Roster for SUPER EDITION]

-Cenozonic Blue Ranger {POWER RANGERS 2017} [Base Roster - added in Update 1, SUPER EDITION BASE ROSTER]

- Goldar {MIGHTY MORPHIN} [Base Roster]

- Lord Drakkon {SHATTERED GRID} [Base Roster]

- Scorpina {MIGHTY MORPHIN} [SUPER EDITION BASE ROSTER]

- Lord Zedd {MIGHTY MORPHIN} [SUPER EDITION BASE ROSTER]

- Anubis Krueger (SPD SHADOW RANGER) {SPD} [SUPER EDITION BASE ROSTER]

- Jen Scotts (TIMEFORCE PINK) {TIMEFORCE} [SUPER EDITION BASE ROSTER]

- Eric Myers (QUANTUM RANGER) {TIMEFORCE} [SUPER EDITION BASE ROSTER]

- Trey of Triforia (GOLD RANGER) {ZEO}

- Lauren Shiba (FEMALE SAMURAI RED) {SAMURAI/SUPER SAMURAI} [SUPER EDITION BASE ROSTER]

-Robert James "RJ" (WOLF RANGER) {JUNGLE FURY} [SUPER EDITION BASE ROSTER]

- DAI SHI {JUNGLE FURY} [SUPER EDITION BASE ROSTER]

- Ryu (CRIMSON HAWK RANGER) {STREET FIGHTER} [Crossover Guest Character From Street Fighter. SUPER EDITION BASE ROSTER]

- Chun Li (BLUE PHONIEX RANGER) {STREET FIGHTER} [Crossover Guest Character From Street Fighter. SUPER EDITION BASE ROSTER]

- Adam Park (Ninja Ranger Black) {MIGHTY MORPHIN} [1 of 3 Final DLC characters included after the release of SUPER EDITION]

-Poisandra {NINJA STEEL} [1 of 3 Final DLC characters included after the release of SUPER EDITION]

- Rita Repolsa {MIGHTY MORPHIN} [1 of 3 Final DLC characters included after the release of SUPER EDITION]


I feel like more DLC costumes should've been added. Like giving Tommy DLC for his Red ZEO suit, Red TURBO Suit, and his DINO THUNDER BLACK SUIT. Or Jason with OMEGA RANGER OUTFIT from the Comics. Or giving Gia Morgan her original MEGAFORCE OUTFIT. Human outfits/models for the Rangers as DLC costumes like Ryu and Chun Li have. DaiRanger Suits from the comics. Adam Park Black Mastodon Ranger Outfit DLC. I think either more cosmetic DLC or unlockables/customization of outfits would've been cooler and add to the longevity of the game, because actively as of writing this, the rewards you can obtain from playing online are just profile banners...instead of something cool to strive to obtain like special costumes.

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Also, while not a bad roster, this feels more like a roster you would see in a standard fighting game, not a final definitive one. I think they should've allowed more time to cook to have the other characters already included in base roster (EXCEPT RYU AND CHUN LI AS THEY WOULD STILL BE DLC), and they could've reserved DLC for more Rangers from other shows:

- Delphine {WHITE AQUITAR RANGER) {ALIEN RANGER}

- Phantom Ranger {TURBO}

- Andros (RED SPACE RANGER) {IN SPACE}
and/or
- Zhane (SILVER SPACE RANGER) {IN SPACE)
[What really sucks is Zhane is seen within a cutscene... which would make anyone think that he's going to be DLC... sadly never was]

- Carter Grayson (LIGHTSPEED RED) {LIGHTSPEED RESCUE}
and/or
- Ryan Mitchell (TITANIUM RANGER) {LIGHTSPEED RESCUE}

- Alyssa Enrile (WHITE WILD FORCE RANGER) {WILD FORCE}
and/or
- Merrick Baliton (LUNAR WOLF RANGER) {WILD FORCE}

- Cameron Watanabe (GREEN SAMURAI RANGER) {NINJA STORM}
and/or
-Hunter Bradley (CRIMSON THUNDER) {NINJA STORM)
and/or
- Blake Bradley (NAVY THUNDER) {NINJA STORM}

- Trent Mercer (WHITE DINO RANGER) {DINO THUNDER}

- Schuyler "Sky" Tate (SPD BLUE/SPD DEKA RANGER) {SPD}
and/or
- Sam (SPD OMEGA RANGER) {SPD}
and/or
- Nova (SPD NOVA RANGER) {SPD}
and/or
- Kelson Henderson "BOOM" (SPD ORANGE) {SPD}

- Koragg (KNIGHT WOLF [Purple]/Wolf Warrior [RED]) {MYSTIC FORCE}
and/or
-Chip Thorn (MYSTIC FORCE YELLOW) {MYSTIC FORCE}
and/or
-Xander (MYSTIC FORCE GREEN) {MYSTIC FORCE}
and/or
-Madison Rocca (MYSTIC FORCE BLUE) {MYSTIC FORCE}

-Tyzonn (MERCURY RANGER) {OPERATION OVERDRIVE}

- Casey Rhodes (JUNGLE FURY RED RANGER) {JUNGLE FURY}
and/or
-Dominic Hargan (JUNGLE FURY RHINO RANGER) {JUNGLE FURY}
and/or
- SPIRIT RANGER (JUNGLE FURY ELEPHANT, BAT, and SHARK RANGERS) {JUNGLE FURY}
[Idea being: the Spirits fuse into 1 and can switch between the 3 animals similar to Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat]

- Flynn MacAllistair (RPM BLUE) {RPM}
and/or
- Dillion (RPM BLACK) {RPM}

-Antonio Garcia (SAMURAI GOLD RANGER) {SAMURAI/SUPER SAMURAI}

- ROBOKNIGHT {MEGAFORCE}
and/or
- Orion (SUPER MEGAFORCE SILVER RANGER) {SUPER MEGAFORCE}

- Hayley Foster (NINJA STEEL WHITE) {NINJA STEEL}
or
- Levi Weston (NINJA STEEL GOLD) {NINJA STEEL}

- Nate Silva (GRID BATTLE FORCE GOLD RANGER} {BEASTMORPHERS)
and/or
- STAG (GRID BATTLE FORCE SILVER RANGER) {BEASTMORPHERS}
and/or
- Blaze (GRID EVIL BATTLE FORCE RED RANGER) {BEAST MORPHERS}

- JJ Oliver (SPD GREEN DRAGON RANGER) {POWER RANGERS: SOUL OF THE DRAGON}


Alot to think about and a lot of characters listed I know, but like there's a bunch of characters to choose from, personally I don't know anyone who wanted:

Cenozoic Blue or Poisandra or Lauren Shiba

But since they're in it, it's like I said, there were so many other rangers to add, that could've made it so fans kept it alive to see characters from all different series, maybe even comics.

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For the most part, I'm glad this game exist, I think if they ever do a sequel, I would want it to build off this one, add more characters from different series and especially popular characters, BALANCE OUT AI BETTER, add proper recovery and counters.

Though because of the issues, I have to give this a solid 3 stars. It's not good, not bad, it's a novelty that it exists, and it's fine, but average. I do hope for a good sequel one day that adds more of what I stated above. Thanks for reading.

I only just started playing this, but jumped into the story mode right after the tutorial like I figure most people would and this AI, on normal, is insane. I still have no clue about this game's combo structure or the best neutral options because I just started and the AI is absolutely creaming me, they have a pattern of zoning you until you get close, which doesn't bother me because if a character can do that why wouldn't they, but then once I close in I get input read and clobbered by the same 15 hit combo every time. One time they actually optimized the combo because the one it had been hitting me with the whole match would have just missed killing me so they added a couple of hits somehow. Wild.