Overall I think the shooting mechanics and characters are pretty balanced, the MTX aren't absolutely abhorrent, and the game modes are pretty solid. Without recognizable characters, though, I worry about it's long-term staying power.

So I recently picked up a Backbone, and coincidentally this came out the same day. I downloaded it on my iPhone 15 Pro Max, played a few matches, and picked up the Arena Pass to support the devs. I've been playing it since, and I'm having a lot of fun.

Each character in this 4v4 hero shooter is pretty well balanced. I've leaned more toward damage dealers like Aron Tal, but I really like some of the support characters like Skora, who shoots, heals, and throws down an AOE heal/damage.

There are a few things I would change. The free credit currency you get is pretty pathetic. Obviously the point is to drip feed you the free stuff so you buy the premium, but at least in other games I feel like you can get something out of the free stuff. Here, you get one or two items that cycle from the store infrequently. I would also love to be able to pick a specific game mode to play in casual mode, instead of randomly getting whatever they decide (not a fan of Trophy Chase).

I also was surprised that we got a Star Wars game with no known characters. Don't know if they'll add them in, but I worry about how long people will stick around if they can't play as Boba Fett or Chewbacca, and are stuck on the bargain bin versions of those.

Its fun. I wouldn't recommend playing with touch screen, but if you play on Switch or with a controller, you'll get something out of this.

Although saddled with what we’ve come to expect from free-to-play games (redundant currencies/resources, paying to progress, FOMO-inducing events, etc), I still enjoyed the core gameplay loop a decent amount.

I played on an IPhone 12 with a controller and thought that the performance was good enough for what the game demands. Your mileage may vary if you’re using a Switch or touch controls though. Your experience will also vary a good deal depending on how bad your random teammates are. I’d recommend friending any good players you come across and queuing up with them if you want to avoid that frustration.

My favorite aspect of the game was the creativity as far as character design goes. It feels like they could’ve easily taken the route of using established fan-favorites but instead we ended up with two Jawas in a trench coat and a robot Jedi, which is objectively cooler.

FAT disappointment after this game was in development for so long.

I've played this game on a Samsung phone, a Nintendo Switch, and an Android PC emulator. Unfortunately I absolutely hate playing games on phone, I especially hate controlling a 3D camera on a phone, just a personal preference. Unfortunately for me, this game is only best played on the phone, on switch it runs and looks significantly worse and you're at a disadvantage from phone players that have superior aim assist. The Android Emulators currently don't run this game very well at all, so alas I'm left with no platform to comfortably play this. That's my personal platform rant lol.

Now onto the actual game, it's just not good! Everything outside of the actual gameplay is, as expect, total mobile game malarkey. 50 million unlocks, battle passes, credits, etc. It's just an absolute slog of incoherent menus. This absolutely harms the experience.

The actual game isn't much better. It is a neat novelty I'll give them that, a 4v4 hero shooter set in the Star Wars universe! I was actually looking forward to this cause of the interesting premise. The most interesting character to me was the robot jedi, he looks awesome. Tragically, I was never able to play him, because you don't get to choose who you unlock, the game decides the order of unlocking characters, so if the guy you want is at the end or middle of the line, tough shit I guess.

From the characters I have played and seen in game, there are some major balancing issues. The wookie character is flat out broken, you'd be a fool to not have him on your team, and many healer characters just straight up can't die because their healing abilities recharge so fast.

Balancing aside, I think this is just not a good game to make mobile. This game has a ranked mode, it has some heavy teamwork elements where the team with the better composition, spacing, and ability management will win. This of course is a HORRIBLE pairing with random phone users. You will queue up into a ranked game with 3 other randoms, just to get completely stomped by a group of friends working together. The thing is, I can't even be upset, it's absurd to expect overwatch-comp levels of cooperation out of random phone users, but that's kinda what this game is asking for?

This game is a pretty cool spectacle on the phone and a cool idea for a Star Wars game, but there's nothing here worth my time.

The game seemingly is asking for a lot of the players time without offering anything worth that time, I don't get it I guess.

(See all my Star Wars Rankings and reviews on my profile here, the list is titled "Star Wars Ranked.")

I'm not really into arena PVP or hero shooter games but it's free and I like Star Wars (in theory) so I tried it out on Switch. I expected to play a couple rounds and uninstall but surprisingly I enjoyed it and played for a couple hours. Matches are short and character abilities are simple, in a good way. These two factors allows you to easily jump into another game and give a low barrier to entry. My assumption is that this simplicity will get boring over time but perhaps the progressive unlocking of characters will make that better. Currently there are only 13 characters but I'm sure they'll add more. You start with 2 unlocked and can unlock more by playing (or paying money of course). In the 2 hours that I played I unlocked two additional characters.

I might pick it up again sometime when I don't have the time to commit to a full gaming session of the other "legit" games I'm currently in the middle of. I doubt I'll play it again for any extended duration like I did the first time.
It's a fun time for as long as it keeps your attention but, unfortunately for the devs, it's not really worth spending money on.

I've played this on iOS and Switch and funnily enough, it's 10x better on mobile. It's optimized as a mobile game with incredible aim assist and auto fire that takes away almost any skill at all. On Switch the controls are absolute dogshit and it runs like I'm playing it on a microwave. It could have been very fun if this had come out on PS5/Xbox/PC, but alas. If you're a Star Wars fan, play it on mobile (and steer clear of the Switch version) for a mindless PVP shooter experience.

[Played on both Nintendo Switch & iOS]