I should start by saying i never played the gacha version, because i fucking hate those things. I bought it because it had a 50% discount and i was curious, honestly i was expecting to play it for 20 minutes before getting a refund.
And now here i am, like 20 hours later writing a review for it.
It's really fun, of course it's not as good as most other MM games, but as a spin off it's pretty nice. I get to play with a bunch of characters i always wanted to use (or are very rare as playable characters) like Roll, Sigma, Vile or Pandora wich is great... buuuut not really. You actually play with generic weapons you equip them with and the only thing the character brings is 2 skills, and depending on the character it can feel great and make them feel unique (Sigma for example feels like playing his first phase in X1) or really lame (the Vile and Roll skills were disappointing).
I have two problems with the weapons in the game:
1) Most of them are random made up garbage
2) Lack of variety in the melee weapons
The Z-Saber is not in the game, Sigma's Lightsaber is not in the game, i can't use Roll's broom as a sword, Vile's shoulder machine gun is just a prop that makes him look silly while he uses a different machine gun, there's not even an option to use the character weapon as a skin. Instead all we can use is some Neptunia looking toy weapons. There's a few "real" weapons in the game like Sigma's Scythe but you can count them with your fingers.
As for melee weapons, it's all swords with a very few exceptions and i'm sure they all play the same.
Another big problem i have is the roster. Why is there SO many wasted slots on skin tier characters? Don't get me wrong, a lot of the event variants are super cool/cute and i want to use them, but did they really need to be separate characters? You could just make a skin for most of them and make space for characters that were left out like robot masters or mavericks, side characters like Duo, or fucking Ashe/Grey/Vent (seriosusly why the hell are they not in the game?!?!?!?!). But no, we have 5 different Irsises instead.
What makes it worse is that they added original characters to the game, and i wouldn't mind if it wasn't because there's a lot of possible REAL characters that were left out, instead of something like Ashe, Snake Man or Fire Man.exe we get a bunch of Ricos. I don't even dislike the original gacha characters, but there are so many chars i'd take over them, i'd even prefer getting a Sniper Joe instead of Swimsuit Rico or some shit.
I'm not done yet but the plot is ass, i don't care, Rico is annoying and Via sucks. The fact that you're supposed to be a super fan that has a lot of experience with the series but Rico treats you like you've never seen a controller before is irritating. The tutorial on the highway was the worst, that level is an excellent "organic" tutorial, being interrupted all the time to be told how to attack or wall climb feels like a crime.
There's so much wasted potential here it hurts, it could have been the ultimate fanservice game for MM fans, instead it's just a very ok spin off. At least it's fun.
And now here i am, like 20 hours later writing a review for it.
It's really fun, of course it's not as good as most other MM games, but as a spin off it's pretty nice. I get to play with a bunch of characters i always wanted to use (or are very rare as playable characters) like Roll, Sigma, Vile or Pandora wich is great... buuuut not really. You actually play with generic weapons you equip them with and the only thing the character brings is 2 skills, and depending on the character it can feel great and make them feel unique (Sigma for example feels like playing his first phase in X1) or really lame (the Vile and Roll skills were disappointing).
I have two problems with the weapons in the game:
1) Most of them are random made up garbage
2) Lack of variety in the melee weapons
The Z-Saber is not in the game, Sigma's Lightsaber is not in the game, i can't use Roll's broom as a sword, Vile's shoulder machine gun is just a prop that makes him look silly while he uses a different machine gun, there's not even an option to use the character weapon as a skin. Instead all we can use is some Neptunia looking toy weapons. There's a few "real" weapons in the game like Sigma's Scythe but you can count them with your fingers.
As for melee weapons, it's all swords with a very few exceptions and i'm sure they all play the same.
Another big problem i have is the roster. Why is there SO many wasted slots on skin tier characters? Don't get me wrong, a lot of the event variants are super cool/cute and i want to use them, but did they really need to be separate characters? You could just make a skin for most of them and make space for characters that were left out like robot masters or mavericks, side characters like Duo, or fucking Ashe/Grey/Vent (seriosusly why the hell are they not in the game?!?!?!?!). But no, we have 5 different Irsises instead.
What makes it worse is that they added original characters to the game, and i wouldn't mind if it wasn't because there's a lot of possible REAL characters that were left out, instead of something like Ashe, Snake Man or Fire Man.exe we get a bunch of Ricos. I don't even dislike the original gacha characters, but there are so many chars i'd take over them, i'd even prefer getting a Sniper Joe instead of Swimsuit Rico or some shit.
I'm not done yet but the plot is ass, i don't care, Rico is annoying and Via sucks. The fact that you're supposed to be a super fan that has a lot of experience with the series but Rico treats you like you've never seen a controller before is irritating. The tutorial on the highway was the worst, that level is an excellent "organic" tutorial, being interrupted all the time to be told how to attack or wall climb feels like a crime.
There's so much wasted potential here it hurts, it could have been the ultimate fanservice game for MM fans, instead it's just a very ok spin off. At least it's fun.