It's very difficult to evaluate this title. It certainly has been trucking along for nearly 10 years since it came out. It's rare to see games get support for such a long period of time.,
The positives. To start, the Switch version comes with the full story campaign of Xenoverse 1. So it's technically 1 and a half games bundle into one, which is nice.
The game overall is fun to play. Controls are smooth and feel good to use. Flying around with a bunch of people fighting a giant enemy is really cool! The customization is really nice, for all the outfits and special moves and transformations. Even the base game with zero dlc is a pretty decent length in terms of content. With all the DLC, the game becomes 5-6 times as big. Sidequests, new characters, new story missions, etc etc.
So what is it about this game that just feels... like it's missing something? Because it's pretty solid.
The experience playing the game feels very "passive." Meaning that you feel less like you're flying around in a DBZ game and more like you're going through the motions and enjoying yourself 90% of the time. Many enemies are damage sponges and they do absurd damage in late game content. Customization, while good, can be limiting. Basically every race besides Saiyans for a long time had lackluster transformations until the inclusions of new forms added to the game.
In general the game can be a big slog to get through. There is so much grinding, everything costs so much TP. The battles are so long and drawn out because of damage sponges and waves of enemies. It has a really random and pointless inclusion of the Heroes card game. Just shoe horned in for no real value.
I think the big issue is that the game feels stretched out rather than the content feeling more organic. And you feel more of an obligation to boot it up when there is new content, rather than coming back normally to play it. The game is fun, but not enough to hold your attention for the time it wants out of you.
Still presentation wise, content wise, it is a solid game. It's just missing something for me to make it great.
The positives. To start, the Switch version comes with the full story campaign of Xenoverse 1. So it's technically 1 and a half games bundle into one, which is nice.
The game overall is fun to play. Controls are smooth and feel good to use. Flying around with a bunch of people fighting a giant enemy is really cool! The customization is really nice, for all the outfits and special moves and transformations. Even the base game with zero dlc is a pretty decent length in terms of content. With all the DLC, the game becomes 5-6 times as big. Sidequests, new characters, new story missions, etc etc.
So what is it about this game that just feels... like it's missing something? Because it's pretty solid.
The experience playing the game feels very "passive." Meaning that you feel less like you're flying around in a DBZ game and more like you're going through the motions and enjoying yourself 90% of the time. Many enemies are damage sponges and they do absurd damage in late game content. Customization, while good, can be limiting. Basically every race besides Saiyans for a long time had lackluster transformations until the inclusions of new forms added to the game.
In general the game can be a big slog to get through. There is so much grinding, everything costs so much TP. The battles are so long and drawn out because of damage sponges and waves of enemies. It has a really random and pointless inclusion of the Heroes card game. Just shoe horned in for no real value.
I think the big issue is that the game feels stretched out rather than the content feeling more organic. And you feel more of an obligation to boot it up when there is new content, rather than coming back normally to play it. The game is fun, but not enough to hold your attention for the time it wants out of you.
Still presentation wise, content wise, it is a solid game. It's just missing something for me to make it great.