I did not finish this game, I completely lost interest in it. Because my experience was more limited I think it wouldn't be fair to rate the game.
What I can say is I spent 9 hours playing and really did not like this.
Random IP's are just thrown in so fans will buy it, but there's not much substance to back it up. There's several hundred extremely well animated battle animations accurate to the source material, while it's very impressive to look at it feels like they rely on them to distract players from the uninteresting story and overly expositional writing that doesn't amount to anything worthwhile and fails to try to set up an (interesting [to me at least]) original story around all these characters.
Even on Hardest settings at 5+ hours in I could just send my units directly into harms way with little thought, pick any attack and repeat every turn and still win with no allies lost. Enemy NPCs mostly behave the same way without any real strategy or unique AI.
The game-play is an illusion. There's tons of buffs equip-ables and menus within menus but there is no reason to bother with any of it, because the characters are already overpowered.
Importing this was a complete waste of time, I've played better SRW games that required thought and skill to play, had interesting characters that were better introduced with believable interactions.
Most games are an interactive experience, if a game doesn't rely on gameplay it needs a good plot, writing, or setting to keep it engaging. This does neither, it's a glorified mecha cutscene simulator.
Even if that's your thing, you can just look up all the animations and get the same experience without having to play it at all, and would be a better experience, better yet just watch the animated series connected to whatever IP.
This is probably just not for me, it seems like you have to be a fan of these IPs to enjoy it, I assume it doesn't get better or difficult 10+ hours in but I could be wrong, either way it shouldn't take that long.
Besides the weak crossover, and some really good remix tracks and original music this game has no point.
What I can say is I spent 9 hours playing and really did not like this.
Random IP's are just thrown in so fans will buy it, but there's not much substance to back it up. There's several hundred extremely well animated battle animations accurate to the source material, while it's very impressive to look at it feels like they rely on them to distract players from the uninteresting story and overly expositional writing that doesn't amount to anything worthwhile and fails to try to set up an (interesting [to me at least]) original story around all these characters.
Even on Hardest settings at 5+ hours in I could just send my units directly into harms way with little thought, pick any attack and repeat every turn and still win with no allies lost. Enemy NPCs mostly behave the same way without any real strategy or unique AI.
The game-play is an illusion. There's tons of buffs equip-ables and menus within menus but there is no reason to bother with any of it, because the characters are already overpowered.
Importing this was a complete waste of time, I've played better SRW games that required thought and skill to play, had interesting characters that were better introduced with believable interactions.
Most games are an interactive experience, if a game doesn't rely on gameplay it needs a good plot, writing, or setting to keep it engaging. This does neither, it's a glorified mecha cutscene simulator.
Even if that's your thing, you can just look up all the animations and get the same experience without having to play it at all, and would be a better experience, better yet just watch the animated series connected to whatever IP.
This is probably just not for me, it seems like you have to be a fan of these IPs to enjoy it, I assume it doesn't get better or difficult 10+ hours in but I could be wrong, either way it shouldn't take that long.
Besides the weak crossover, and some really good remix tracks and original music this game has no point.