It feels weird to abandon a game like 70% in, but all the tedium just added up over time. It's a solid idea and concept that gets chipped away by a lot of little annoyances that ultimately kill it for me. Death of a thousand knee scrapes kind of thing:
-The character creator is neat at first but then all the characters just feel kinda not there. Nice to have Yu Narukami and Guts Berserk on the same team, but they just feel interchangeable and meaningless. Maybe voices or more options would have helped them stand out.
-Offsides are incredibly frustrating in the fact that you can do them in the first place, which resets the field and gives your opponent the ball. Given they never make this mistake, it's terrible that you can, after all I am not a pro soccer player which is why I am playing a soccer SRPG, and the punishment is incredibly severe.
-You can only attempt one tackle a turn. If you don't get it, too bad you can only pray that they don't score on you next turn.
-If your goalie manages to catch the ball, you have no control of where they throw it, it's completely random because that is totally how goalies in real soccer work, they just grab the ball and throw it randomly.
-Getting a goal is so tough for both sides to do thanks to the powerful Goalies (and even if you get past one, the ball can just decide to hit the pole haha), that the game can easily end in a tie, where the worst tie mechanics I've seen come to light:
-First part of a tie is two 5 minute (turn) rounds. Due to how hard scoring goals are neither side will really do anything with the 2/3 turns that are given, and so the second half, which is far worse, is....
-Penalty Shots. These are pure RNG, where you have to guess which of 3 directions the AI shoots and the AI "guesses" where you're shooting. The AI will win out, and you WILL do the last 20 minutes of your life again due to a shitty RNG minigame of RPS where you have a 33% chance of being safe. I'm assuming it's because they don't want players to somehow rely on tiebreakers but it just comes across as a middle finger.
I'm sure there are better soccer sims out there that can actually score a goal.
-The character creator is neat at first but then all the characters just feel kinda not there. Nice to have Yu Narukami and Guts Berserk on the same team, but they just feel interchangeable and meaningless. Maybe voices or more options would have helped them stand out.
-Offsides are incredibly frustrating in the fact that you can do them in the first place, which resets the field and gives your opponent the ball. Given they never make this mistake, it's terrible that you can, after all I am not a pro soccer player which is why I am playing a soccer SRPG, and the punishment is incredibly severe.
-You can only attempt one tackle a turn. If you don't get it, too bad you can only pray that they don't score on you next turn.
-If your goalie manages to catch the ball, you have no control of where they throw it, it's completely random because that is totally how goalies in real soccer work, they just grab the ball and throw it randomly.
-Getting a goal is so tough for both sides to do thanks to the powerful Goalies (and even if you get past one, the ball can just decide to hit the pole haha), that the game can easily end in a tie, where the worst tie mechanics I've seen come to light:
-First part of a tie is two 5 minute (turn) rounds. Due to how hard scoring goals are neither side will really do anything with the 2/3 turns that are given, and so the second half, which is far worse, is....
-Penalty Shots. These are pure RNG, where you have to guess which of 3 directions the AI shoots and the AI "guesses" where you're shooting. The AI will win out, and you WILL do the last 20 minutes of your life again due to a shitty RNG minigame of RPS where you have a 33% chance of being safe. I'm assuming it's because they don't want players to somehow rely on tiebreakers but it just comes across as a middle finger.
I'm sure there are better soccer sims out there that can actually score a goal.