MULTIVERSUS REVIEW (THE DEVS HATE YOU)

[Mooronic]

What began as a simple gameplay review quickly became a full critique of the game, its systems, and the disgusting exploitative tactics of its developers.

Watch the video for a full breakdown and let me know what you think in the comments!

https://youtu.be/jeCHlo2nwpQ?si=x_Wx9CW5b5YAWv7E

[Black Messsssa]

After playing for a good while it certainly feels that way. However, most of the games monetary choices could be directed at WB themselves given what they do to other licensed games with just as egregious microtransactions.

However PFG aren't off the hook, the game still feels unpolished in a few areas and has missing content from the beta which they had OVER A YEAR to re-implement, regardless of switching engines to UE5. The character balancing is quite frankly stupid, why in 1v1s can a Shaggy or a WW repeatedly spam their side special for the whole match, and somehow they still win? Even when attack decay is present in the game as a hidden stat now, it doesn't feel like it functions the same way it did in the beta and clearly you're no longer punished for using the same move over and over again nor encouraged to pull off some combo strings.


The online connectivity I will admit has gotten a lot better for me, I only had one disconnection problem tonight which was pretty good but 2v2s are very lag-heavy and it's a struggle to try and play when you have projectiles and flashy effects all over the screen.

I'm just at my wits end with MvS and it absolutely has felt more like a chore to complete the rift challenges and missions rather than having a fun casual experience that you get with most platform fighters.

I'll probably wait and see if any significant changes and quality improvements are made when Agent Smith finally releases before I drop this game altogether.

[Ziack]

This was a good review. Watched it through.

[Wolfdoggie]

Pretty much agree for the most part but not always the devs to blame, it's the deep pocket fatties at the top of the foodchain who have no interest in games and just wanna build a parasitic formula and not a fun toy to play with.

I was excited for Rift mode when they announced it before launch cuz I been wanting a PC "Smash Bro's clone" to actually go as far as adding a story mode/adventure mode and mini-games/alternative modes like SSB:Brawl did for ages and it seemed like the chance for that but nope. It's just some worthless mobile app trash to feed off addiction rather than make you actually want to play it for fun. Hell you can't even pick your AI difficulty level, you have to grind (AN INSANELY MASSIVE GRIND) for that privilege and then be punished for losing against the highest AI difficulty by having to buy lives.

And ofc it's not even designed to be single-player content nor co-op friendly since you're forced to manually pull someone from Steam friend list into it like some sort of pyramid scheme just to do crappy chores with you in a dumpster-designed game mode. I don't even wanna do them myself, why would I wanna bring someone else into it? It's not created in a way where hotjoin co-op would be fun or possible either.

People used to just play fighting games for fun, even as single-player. I grew up playing ones that didn't have an online mode. We were never carroted into logging into them to do chores till live service and esports became a big thing. I wanted to play them because they were actually fun to play. The push to make everything a predatory "Live Service" that's been stripped/dumbed down for ranked esports has ruined fighting games more than most genre of games.

Also the battle pass is insane. It's expiring this month, most of the items I don't care about so I'd have to swim through those for 1-2 decent things with a grind so unfun I've barely put effort into it anymore and am at like 30 something tier. Unlikely I'll finish it. The premium pass was free and yet I don't even want to do it. How do they expect anyone to actually want to PAY to gain access to such an awful experience when I don't even enjoy the free premium one? lol

Paying money for a choreboard is seriously the dumbest invention in gaming. It's just as silly and sad as having to work IRL as an unpaid intern while having to pay the company for the opportunity to due so. Why would anyone want that brought into a product that's supposed to have "fun" as a selling point?

[melonLord]

Originally posted by Wolfdoggie:

Pretty much agree for the most part but not always the devs to blame, it's the deep pocket fatties at the top of the foodchain who have no interest in games and just wanna build a parasitic formula and not a fun toy to play with.

I'll interject only to say that its been found, especially with a few recent notable examples like Suicide Squad, Babylon's Fall and Anthem that these days the devs tend to be more to blame for certain awful monetization and model related decisions than one would think. Given WB's current MO, I'd agree that its more than likely them that forced a lot of stuff in this particular scenario but i would not be surprised if in like 2-3 years it came out that PFG were the ones that proposed stuff like the rift system or the initial battlepass progression rates.

[hi :3]

Originally posted by Wolfdoggie:

Pretty much agree for the most part but not always the devs to blame, it's the deep pocket fatties at the top of the foodchain who have no interest in games and just wanna build a parasitic formula and not a fun toy to play with.

I was excited for Rift mode when they announced it before launch cuz I been wanting a PC "Smash Bro's clone" to actually go as far as adding a story mode/adventure mode and mini-games/alternative modes like SSB:Brawl did for ages and it seemed like the chance for that but nope. It's just some worthless mobile app trash to feed off addiction rather than make you actually want to play it for fun. Hell you can't even pick your AI difficulty level, you have to grind (AN INSANELY MASSIVE GRIND) for that privilege and then be punished for losing against the highest AI difficulty by having to buy lives.

And ofc it's not even designed to be single-player content nor co-op friendly since you're forced to manually pull someone from Steam friend list into it like some sort of pyramid scheme just to do crappy chores with you in a dumpster-designed game mode. I don't even wanna do them myself, why would I wanna bring someone else into it? It's not created in a way where hotjoin co-op would be fun or possible either.

People used to just play fighting games for fun, even as single-player. I grew up playing ones that didn't have an online mode. We were never carroted into logging into them to do chores till live service and esports became a big thing. I wanted to play them because they were actually fun to play. The push to make everything a predatory "Live Service" that's been stripped/dumbed down for ranked esports has ruined fighting games more than most genre of games.

Also the battle pass is insane. It's expiring this month, most of the items I don't care about so I'd have to swim through those for 1-2 decent things with a grind so unfun I've barely put effort into it anymore and am at like 30 something tier. Unlikely I'll finish it. The premium pass was free and yet I don't even want to do it. How do they expect anyone to actually want to PAY to gain access to such an awful experience when I don't even enjoy the free premium one? lol

Paying money for a choreboard is seriously the dumbest invention in gaming. It's just as silly and sad as having to work IRL as an unpaid intern while having to pay the company for the opportunity to due so. Why would anyone want that brought into a product that's supposed to have "fun" as a selling point?

"not the dev to blame" they actively chose to make the game worse on a new engine for no reason instead of adding content and removed depth to appeal to ipad babies even if the game didint have a micro transaction mobile game grind it would still be a massive downgrade from beta