On one hand, I can understand that it's gotta be hard as hell to go from one dedicated platform to four within the same yearly cycle as the previous games, but man, the changes just aren't doing it for me. Road to the Show being based on loadouts more or less instead of game to game progression is a slog. Even NBA 2K is more giving of its microtransaction currency to build up your white beard tall dude. In fact, seeing that perks can be bought with the game's stubs, we can safely say there's some microtransaction fiddling here, too.

Moreover, next gen has some shaky performance, mainly on cutscenes and not during actual play, to be fair, but nothing that seems to suggest we're getting the next generation of a sports title. Stadium Creator is neat and once they basically make it functional, like adding search features that could let us report the edgelord racist ones, that'll be cool. Just kinda bummed that I even had so many nits to pick on a game I usually just love every year, man.