It's a blatant clone of Super Smash Bros; An attempt from Sony to have a foothold in the market that was making Nintendo millions. But I know, that the question in every single person's mind wasn't "why did they do this?" but rather it was "where is this x character?" and "why are they missing?". These questions ended up having really frustrating answers caused by bureaucratic nonsense; Costing the game to suffer a massive loss. It's not a case of people not wanting to see more arena brawlers. It's a case of wanting to play as Crash Bandicoot, or Sora from Kingdom Hearts which Nintendo eventually did! You got Toro and Fat Princess; and Zeus from God of War. Sure, the more the merrier but nobody knows or cares about characters like these. Sony has way too many amazing IPs in its hands; way too many iconic protagonists. So it raised many questions. Gameplay is solid, the map designs are fun and varied, but there's a serious lack of worthwhile content. It's a good versus game between you and your friends but that's about it. There's no unlockables worth mentioning. There's no real story to the game. It just kind of exists, as a game. They could've done more but weren't allowed to. And that falls on Sony and their partnering studios, NOT the developers of this game. Only thing I want to tell them is my frustration with how overly focused the game was on winning by using supers. You don't really throw a player off the map as you did in Smash bros, and that's a real oversight as far as I'm concerned.