TLDR: STAY AWAY! NUMBER OF PLAYERS IS DWINDLING AND DEVS ARE SQUEEZING THEM FOR MONEY WITH FOMO INSTEAD OF IMPROVING THE GAME.

The story of Smash Legends is a rocky one. Initally the game was basically a clone of Brawl Stars, but at a certain point they decided to forego lootboxes completely. You didn't have to pull for characters anymore, you could just buy them with both standard and premium currency, both of which could be earned by playing. Those were the good times.

Then came the battle passes for characters. And then the currencies became more than two. Many, many more than two. And the standard currency became a sort of premium currency itself. And passes started costing real money directly instead of premium currency (so whoever had any saved up to buy passes got royally screwed). All the while power creep and balancing issues became more and more rampant. And then they added Enchantments, literal pay to win buffs to characters (which to be fair are now much more reasonable, but still very unbalanced).

All the while the core gameplay is solid as hell. That's the big disappointment, that this game can be lots of fun. But instead of focusing on bringing their great gameplay to more people and widen the playerbase, they went the complete opposite route and have been steadingly making onboarding worse for new players. The sheer quantity of feature bloat has made them rework the UI/UX five times at least, and the one they settled on for now is incredibly overwhelming even to me, with my 250 hours of playtime. All the while there are so few players left that 2/3 of the matches are with bots.

Needless to say, I ended up really falling out of the game for a long while. But surprisingly I had gained back some hope a few weeks ago. They released a dev statement in which they outlined a lot of the problems the players have for the game, and emphasized their willingness to properly improve the game and especially gain back goodwill from long standing players. That followed by the announcement of the Guilty Gear collab got me quite a bit back into it. I stomached the countless bot matches waiting for Sol to come out, and then a weird thing happened.

Sol comes out, and it is revealed that he will only be available to obtain for around 20-25 bucks and ONLY during the limited time period of the event.

For context, how this game usually works is: a new character will come out and they'll be bundled in with the battle pass, which costs real money (around 10 bucks, you could buy it with premium currency earnable in game once, but no longer). After the season ends, that character becomes available in the store as well to be bought with premium currency (they could be bought with standard currency as well once, but no longer). A character being obtainable EXCLUSIVELY during an event is unprecedented for this game, stuff like this is usually reserved for cosmetics and even those can now be pulled for in a specific premium banner.

And the kicker? It's not like they explicitly tell you in game, no! I had to find that out on the developers' blog site, of which the majority of players don't even know the existence. I find it quite bad, this lack of transparency, especially right after all that "gaining back goodwill" talk (to the point that I'm not even sure if stuff like this is allowed by EU consumer protection laws tbh).

And again, all of this is soured by just how good the game can be. it's nothing extraordinary, sure, but there really is nothing like it on the market. Where else have you seen a well realized 3d Platform Fighter? And I think the setting and theme of reinterpreting fairy tales and mythology characters is genuinely super cool. It breaks my heart to see an indie studio with such a nice game on their hands fail to get the numbers they need to stay afloat, don't get me wrong, I can very much empathize, and even I think they deserve much higher player numbers. But I'm saddened even more to have witnessed in the years how much the line between desperation and greed has been blurred.

To me, the limiting of a gameplay aspect as prominent as a whole character exclusively behind a limited time paywall is the final straw. If they don't walk back on this, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to see myself opening this game again. I don't know what chances this has to be seen by anyone, especially considering the majority of players are on mobile, but my hope is that i'm not alone in this line of thinking, and people can speak up and try to appeal to the devs. I'm not usually one to write reviews for games, but I'm really fond of this one, and I'd love for it to not be in this wretched state, so I thought I should at least try.

So, in conclusion, if you're looking for a new free to play game to sink your teeth into for a while and have somehow ended up considering Smash Legends (which I doubt), I really wouldn't recommend it right now. You won't find many others to play with, and what you'll get is a really bad experience for new players not looking to spend anything. But then again, there definitely is value to be found in the gameplay here, and if you're willing to look past everything discussed or, well, fork out a truckload of money, who am I to stop you.

Thanks for listening to my ramblings.

Entre por la colaboración de guilty gear para poder jugar como sol badguy y me encuentro que vale 20 euros solo desbloquear el personaje y unos comesticos. No solo eso que minimo tienes que gastar 100 euros en conseguir el resto de skins de la colaboracion.

porfavor jueguenlo