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Never owned it but got a good amount of hours over the numerous free trials and opportunities throughout the years. The core gameplay is great and it has a really unique and special thing going but it needs more fluff to it to make a sequel seem worth the full price tag.

Es el boxeo del Wii Sports glorificado. Un juego escasísimo que sólo sirve de prueba del gimmick de los primeros días de la consola, pero sin la variedad o el concepto verdaderamente revolucionario que fue el Wii Sports.
Como juego es pobre y escaso, no da para más de 10 minutos. Lo cual es una lástima porque el diseño de los personajes y la música son excelentes.

This game gets way too much flak. It’s the sort of game where fighting is so much fun that I just enjoy fighting in it. It came out around the time when hero shooters were big and really feels like it leans into that style. Idk I just think this game is really cool and some day others will take notice and pretentious they never hated it

short on content, still had alot of fun


This is a good, fun game, but just low on content.

I don't understand why Nintendo seemingly gave up on so much potential this easily.

The gameplay falls under easy to play, hard to master. High skilled matchups can get really intense and are just a blast to play.

The characters are all bristling with personality and charm, there's distinct levels, I mean everything in this game is good. But the problem is, there's simply not enough in this game. The lack of diverse characters and different arms to choose leads to the game getting pretty stale after awhile.

A good time, but only for a short time.

Wish they did more with the characters like voice acting, or a story mode with dialogue or just anything really. Awesome characters with fun gameplay but once you beat the campaign theres not much to do unless you have friends to play with, but even then it gets boring pretty quick. Cool concept and fun while it lasted tho

Nintendo summoning 100000+ unnamed arms fans to buy this boring ass game

I hope Nintendo fleshes this game out with a sequel.

min min is cool but wasted potential

i was really hoping nintendo would pull a splatoon with this one and it would rule. the testpunch was pretty fun and when the game came out i enjoyed it. there just isn't any content. there's an arcade mode and online matches and thats it. there are a couple side modes such as hoops and targets but you can experience most of what this game has to offer in a couple hours and the updates just added new characters which while nice wasn't really my problem with the game in the first place. if you want a fun multiplayer game on switch there are a lot better options then arms

on one hand, it feels like this game/franchise got abandoned way too quickly. on the other, every once in a blue moon someone will put fanart of the clown girl with big tits on my twitter timeline and it takes a few months off my lifespan. so fuck arms i hope it stays dead forever

Imagine makinhg two sets of controls and they both suck

Bought this at release and I am so sad to give it such a low score but. it was incredibly fucking boring. I loved the art and designs and the world itself seemed so interesting and brimming with potential, but it seems like they didn't really know what to do with all that. :[

This was one of my first ever Switch games and I really liked it! The gameplay was fun and I had a blast playing online with minimal lag. But, the updates were lackluster and I wish they added more game modes, as the game would get boring after a while.

I really like the characters, style and music of Arms. The gameplay is fun but I can't really see myself playing a lot of it since the fights all end up feeling pretty same-y despite the variety in arms. I would've liked to see all the great characters in a more traditional fighting game. The difficulty of the AI in the arcade mode is impressive for a modern nintendo game, though Hedlock is stupid and begs the player to cheese the fight. The minigames are fun enough but the AI can't figure out how to play them. The online works surprisingly well for a modern nintendo game as well. I also like all the art you can get in the gallery, plenty of soul.

ARMS' core gameplay is great, but it's severely lacking in content. Wish this got the Splatoon treatment

I'm straight up not having a good time.

It was perfectly fine and serviceable but definitely couldn't get off the ground in the end. Maybe if it was called "Legs" instead...

Aggressively charming but without the fun gameplay or any sort of decent context to back it up. Arms just isn't fun to play, even if it's creative and new. I wish the incredibly well designed characters had some dialogue, individual story modes that make them more than cool designs. Arms is so content bare its anemic.

So little content and repetitive gameplay

This game is better than people think, The issue is people think it's REALLY bad so it lands in the middle.

ARMS is a game that really shows how important it is to have a good amount of content to make a great game. I would by no means call it a bad game, it has a good OST, characters, and is charming in its own way, but it doesn't provide nearly enough content to be a $60 Nintendo game. For the price of about four copies of Hollow Knight, one would expect a game to have sufficient content to keep the player entertained, but ARMS fails to deliver. It's a fun novelty, but the glaring lack of things to do makes it wear off fast. There is potential for a sequel which takes everything good about ARMS and make a genuinely great game however.

sixty dollars that I spent


Decent game but still ends up feeling a bit bland. It's very well crafted, but the gameplay model that depends on multiplayer just falls short and feels repetitive.

Great game with barely anything to do in it. I NEED a sequel

One of the most mediocre attempt of a fighting games I've ever played. Graphically it looks pretty god, but that gameplay...yikes. To be original is original and indeed it feels Nintendo-ish alright, but that's about it.
Min Min hype in Smash didn't helped to make me return curious into the game. It just reminded how much I didn't liked it.