Back in 2022, I played the first two Rushing Beat games and hated both of them. This was especially true of the first one where it was so bad that the poster promoting EDF made me wanna play that instead. I wanted to wait till NSO got the game but it never came out in Japan so I had to resort to drastic measures and the game was fine surprisingly.
Honestly the game is just very unoffensive to me as you could do worse but this one suffers the most from how exploitable the enemies are in this one. After a while it can get kind of boring despite the decent amount of moves. It even has a block feature and because I suck I can never get use out of it most of the time. I played as Elfin the entire time but with some changes.
One cool thing is that you can edit the color palette and names so I was able to just name the girl after me and also just have dumb enemy names like Jobber or Jaloob because why not? It makes me wonder why they let you do this though but it is funny.
The game is also oddly easy like they give you 30 continues which is insane for a beat em up. Granted you do only have one life but still it doesn't even take you back to a checkpoint if you die, it's kind of crazy. Maybe there's difficulty options? Though I didn't see them.
The game also has a lot of story but sadly I wasn't able to read anything that was going on so if I was missing out on something good then I'm sorry, I won't know what happened. I don't think there's a fan translation either which is a shame.
Overall it's just very "fine" as a game, I can't really recommend it though. It has some things going for it but I just think you're better off with other games. I guess it's nice that it didn't end on another bad note but I can't really see myself playing it again unless it one day shows up on NSO, I hear the US version is worse so try to avoid that one. Why did all of these games here tried to separate themselves in names??
Also screw the final boss' ultimate attack, why do you only get about a second to block a move that takes about 80% of your health?? It's not the worst move to dodge but god that made it stressful.
Actually before I go I should ask incase anyone reads this, did you even know this series is getting a 4th game in 2024? I thought I was finally done until I learned that back in September they did a trailer showcasing a new game. I doubt I'll play it but it says a lot when there's not even a Backloggd page for it still (at least at the time of writing.) Seriously out of all the old franchises to bring back...
Honestly the game is just very unoffensive to me as you could do worse but this one suffers the most from how exploitable the enemies are in this one. After a while it can get kind of boring despite the decent amount of moves. It even has a block feature and because I suck I can never get use out of it most of the time. I played as Elfin the entire time but with some changes.
One cool thing is that you can edit the color palette and names so I was able to just name the girl after me and also just have dumb enemy names like Jobber or Jaloob because why not? It makes me wonder why they let you do this though but it is funny.
The game is also oddly easy like they give you 30 continues which is insane for a beat em up. Granted you do only have one life but still it doesn't even take you back to a checkpoint if you die, it's kind of crazy. Maybe there's difficulty options? Though I didn't see them.
The game also has a lot of story but sadly I wasn't able to read anything that was going on so if I was missing out on something good then I'm sorry, I won't know what happened. I don't think there's a fan translation either which is a shame.
Overall it's just very "fine" as a game, I can't really recommend it though. It has some things going for it but I just think you're better off with other games. I guess it's nice that it didn't end on another bad note but I can't really see myself playing it again unless it one day shows up on NSO, I hear the US version is worse so try to avoid that one. Why did all of these games here tried to separate themselves in names??
Also screw the final boss' ultimate attack, why do you only get about a second to block a move that takes about 80% of your health?? It's not the worst move to dodge but god that made it stressful.
Actually before I go I should ask incase anyone reads this, did you even know this series is getting a 4th game in 2024? I thought I was finally done until I learned that back in September they did a trailer showcasing a new game. I doubt I'll play it but it says a lot when there's not even a Backloggd page for it still (at least at the time of writing.) Seriously out of all the old franchises to bring back...