Kino's final showdown.

It's weird. It looks the same, sounds the same (aside from the music) but lots of mechanical changes as well as ones relating to character inputs make it feel like a different game. Like it's VF6 without actually being VF6. Not saying it's a bad thing but it's something I just realized recently.

MTE (Multiple Throw Escapes) are removed as well as VF5 vanilla's Throw Clash. Throw Escapes in general has been made easier as well as combos. Evading has had tweaks and jumping is finally not so awkward to do (Guard+Up for a regular jump).

I'd say some of those are legitimate improvements. But outside of the core gameplay, the game kind of reeks of cheap downloadable title. Less single player content meaning no quest mode replaced with simple trials which is something I guess. Cool thing is you can change sound tracks to previous games and revisions.

Costume customization is pretty cool as well. Not the deepest but you can still make the character unrecognizable.

All in all, great base game, meh single player stuff. I really hope they improve those things around next time! :)

Reviewed on Jun 10, 2021


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