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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 5.0 hrs on record
Posted: Feb 7, 2015 @ 5:02pm
Updated: Feb 7, 2015 @ 5:04pm

In this game's current state there are a lot of problems... It's a pretty simple 4-player battle arena with dodgy controls (read: there's no tracking even on locked on opponents). Probably would be pretty fun regardless playing as intended with four people, but a lot of the stuff in the game is broken. There are three real killer problems here...

First, the game crashes a lot during battles. Seems to come out of absolutely nowhere. It's always disappointing when you're beating a cheesy boss or fighting a tough battle and winning and the game just stops working. Once or twice is bad enough. Often is not acceptable in any game.

Second, there are controller issues. The configuration tool is bugged or something and binds anything you put into it into different keys a lot of the time. Fiddling with your controller for half an hour when you don't like the controls really is inexcusable at all. I don't even understand how something like that can happen.

Third, and the worst offender is the online. The online is absolutely terrible. If you're not one of the people having an issue with black screens and actually get to play (I can, but I've only been playing with one other person), the netcode can do very, very strange things at times. I've had times where I can't move, and then get to move super speed after. My friend claimed he got hit all the way across the map by my super. Things that connect that shouldn't do and vice versa. On top of all this you can only play one game after making a lobby; if anyone attempts to return to lobby instead of leaving netplay the game flat out crashes for everyone.

There are other problems but those three are bad enough to kill it for me alone. Given that there are no other games like this on Steam at the moment this seems like it would be a slam dunk but the developers clearly needed to do more testing before release. Game was patched about a month ago as of this writing so there's hope that it'll be fixed, but right now it's definitely not a recommend from me.
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