For past years we were all have been waiting for a new DIGIMON game to come to US and EUROPE,BANDAI NAMCO didn't release PSP Digimon Adventure Game, nor PSP/3DS Decode outside of japan, and haven't said anything about new Cyber Sleuth release either. Instead they have decided to release Digimon All-Star Rumble for us "to test the waters", and see if there was enough market for these gamesFor past years we were all have been waiting for a new DIGIMON game to come to US and EUROPE,BANDAI NAMCO didn't release PSP Digimon Adventure Game, nor PSP/3DS Decode outside of japan, and haven't said anything about new Cyber Sleuth release either. Instead they have decided to release Digimon All-Star Rumble for us "to test the waters", and see if there was enough market for these games to be profitable. And here we are a couple days before release date, some of us have been able to get a copy early and see how the game is.
Here is what I’m going to say to BANDAI NAMCO: Next time don't bother.
Why?
Because selling **** won’t get you any profits.
This game is bad. We've all been expecting Rumble Arena 1,2 style game with good and fun gameplay and solid graphics, but this game doesn’t have any **** thing, its simply bad, and here is why:
Story mode.
The story mode looks like Digimon World 4 game but without weapons, you control your Digimon and have the same move sets as in battle mode.
You are going around fighting some "filler” Dgimon to complete level and fight one of the primary Digimon and at the end of story mode you get the second evolution for your Digimon.
It sounds fantastic until you play it, the map design and very simple, like three to five useless chests and one trap across the map, a couple of "filler” Digimon with their respective mini-bosses, and a playable Digimon as a boss, with whom you speak, then battle and unlock him. And this torture repeats like 8 times over and over at different areas. The enemy AI is null, thee mini bosses Digimon have one attack that’s very easy to evade, but thanks to game being **** buggy it doesn’t work all the time. It also has ZERO exploration.
The worst part of it is that you have to repeat this boring piece of **** for every Digimon that has an alternate evolution. By the time you complete this mode first time you already want to kill yourself, or better kill the **** Developers behind this abomination.
Graphics:
Very little to say here, animations are very bad, level design like on the worst of ps2 games, with invisible walls, textures are very low resolution and there are noticeable frame drops from time to time in story mode.
The only Good thing are the Digimon 3D models in which developers at least put 2 days of work.
Character roster:
Developers said that they have listened to fans while making character roster: I think they listened to the Pokemon fans. Because who in his right **** mind will put ExVeemon, Wargrowlomon and ****ty Shoutomon variations as evolutions instead of l’ets say Alphamon, AeroVeedramon, Beelzemon etc.
Battle mode: This mode is the STAR of the game. There are six different battle modes, when you see them for the first time you say: This game will be very fun to play!! Well it’s **** not.
The modes are very bad made, and have ZERO inspiration in them, every mode tries to be Rumble Arena-like and fails at it miserably. It pain in the ass to even explain them. Go look them up on Google see for yourself how incredibly GOOD and FUN they are.
Battle-System:
The battle system is very bad designed and balanced even worse, when your Digimon receives a combo and it’s on the ground you enter invincible mode during which no one can touch you. When you stand back it goes away but if opponent stars combo before invincibility is over or while you still on the ground, the combo will almost always hit you and nothing will save you. Controlling the Digimon is also very bad, sometimes after a combo you want to turn and attack but the attack goes in opposite direction and it **** ups everything.
To digivolve during battle you have to fill special meter and then after you digivolved you have to fill it again to make a special attack, the worst thing about it is when you have evolved its that you can’t see anywhere how much time you have left to dedigivolve and you start hitting with you opponents with all you’ve got to fill the **** special attack meter.
Battle balance is very bad, there are some overpowered and underpowered Digimon. Take as example ExVeemon, it’s almost impossible to make a good combo using him, or Tentomon who will **** you up spamming electricity every two seconds. And even guard won’t save you.
There is also Naruto style button, that teleports you to enemy back if you hit it at the right time, but it fails many times because you end up facing opposite direction of enemy. In this case you do quick turn and attack but it doesn’t work because quick turn has about one or two seconds delay and you star attacking the wrong way.
To resume BANDAI NAMCO simply doesn’t give a single **** about Digimon games in US and EUROPE, this game with zero effort on their part perfectly tells us that.… Expand
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