Kill la Kill: IF

 PlayStation 4
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6.5

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  1. Pattyzombiie
    Jul 26, 2019
    10
    So amazing !! Ahh so happy with this game! I'm giving this game a 10 for sure.
    So much fun and the story! Must play ! :)
  2. Dr4gonkiller96
    Aug 18, 2019
    10
    An amazing fighter for Kill La Kill fans featuring Fan favourite characters. The graphics are amazing... in a way that does the trigger artstyle justice. The story mode though short with 2 different versions (the Ryuko being the better Story as it has Mako in it unlike Satsuki's story). It has its funny moments, and its action packed moments. All cutscenes are done like an Anime whileAn amazing fighter for Kill La Kill fans featuring Fan favourite characters. The graphics are amazing... in a way that does the trigger artstyle justice. The story mode though short with 2 different versions (the Ryuko being the better Story as it has Mako in it unlike Satsuki's story). It has its funny moments, and its action packed moments. All cutscenes are done like an Anime while recreating the actual Anime cutscenes in the engine, and they have done a pretty god job here.

    Gameplay wise it is good enough for a Kill La Kill game, it's everything i wanted it to be, and the AI don't let up either, so you can play the game without online if you want and you miss out on anything.

    For additional Modes other than Story, there is Versus, Training, Tutorial, Survival, Wave Mode, Ranked Online and Player Online modes. each has something to do so it can keep you from getting bored if you are like me and just sit in training Mode for 2 hours straight with the same 2 Characters fighting each other with infinite health... yes i do it, don't judge.

    it is 100% fully voiced in Japanese and English... and with the Cutscenes, unlike Arc Systems previous titles, there is no Text boxes, so you can relax and enjoy the visuals... sadly with the way mouths are made, the English voices although are great, they are out of sync for 60% of the time unlike the original Anime. Nothing beats Stephanie Sheh (Nui) and Christine Marie Cabanos (Mako) though (i am biased and love their other character performances)

    The music is what you expect from Kill La Kill, its all the same and just great all around. staying on track with audio (pun not intended), the Sounds from the attacks, screams, and everything is amazing and makes it even better, the way Nonon fires her beams, or the popping of Nui's doppelgangers.

    overall this is a sight to be hold and will come back to it from time to time. Congrats on ArcSys for making my dream come true.    … Expand
  3. Alexurameshi
    Aug 25, 2019
    10
    Fluid gameplay, loads of content, great soundtrack and all of the original voice actors (both sub and dub!)
  4. Ikrym
    Feb 29, 2020
    8
    Kill la Kill: IF is probably one of the best anime arena fighters to date. The combat is satisfying enough for beginners, which can pull off some spectacular moves just by button-smashing, but is also deep enough for a skilled player to always shine in comparison. The basic inputs are the same for every character, but each hero adds his variation to them, as well as different stats andKill la Kill: IF is probably one of the best anime arena fighters to date. The combat is satisfying enough for beginners, which can pull off some spectacular moves just by button-smashing, but is also deep enough for a skilled player to always shine in comparison. The basic inputs are the same for every character, but each hero adds his variation to them, as well as different stats and gimmicks which makes them feel pretty unique. The netcode is very solid, and the ranked system is a true ranked system (you lose points for every loss). The story mode is short (~3-4h total) but sweet, with fully voiced and animated cut-scenes, an alternate story (it requires you to have watched the anime) and a variety of exclusive modes.
    The negatives include a pretty small roster of characters (12 total as of today), the boring stages and the fact that you need to complete the whole story in order to unlock everything in other modes. I'm having quite a lot of fun with the game.    … Expand
  5. adrianhc346
    Jun 8, 2020
    1
    El juego en si esta bien,aunque tenga pocos personajes y escenarios es divertido,los modos de juego son entretenidos y desafiantes,la historia sirve como tutorial como en todos los juegos de pelea,visualmente se ve parecido como al anime y eso le da su toque.
    ...Entre los puntos buenos serian los personajes que están bien balanceados,los gráficos pero eso da igual,la música porque se    El juego en si esta bien,aunque tenga pocos personajes y escenarios es divertido,los modos de juego son entretenidos y desafiantes,la historia sirve como tutorial como en todos los juegos de pelea,visualmente se ve parecido como al anime y eso le da su toque.
    ...Entre los puntos buenos serian los personajes que están bien balanceados,los gráficos pero eso da igual,la música porque se mantiene original a la serie,el sistema de combate los combos y demás no se vuelven difíciles de realizar y es fácil aprender.
    ...Lo negativo seria:Hay pocos personajes en al final cojes 2 o 3 como máximo,los escenarios se sienten iguales solo hay 5 y 2 o 3 de ellos son casi iguales solo cambia el tamaño,los modos de juego se vuelven repetitivos y al final acabas aburriéndote.
    Y al final el punto negativo que mas me a molestado del juego es el des balanceo abusivo del modo supervivencia,en este modo es pelear y sobrevivir todo lo posible,pues el problema es que en la partida o pelea 10 el juego se vuelve imposible de jugar te tocan personajes imposibles de detener o golpear,si consigues ganar,te tocaran 1 o 2 jugadores malos,pero luego de nuevo otro que es imposible,encima que para conseguir el platino necesitas llegar en ese modo de juego a la ronda 50 pero con lo difícil y des balanceado que se vuelve se convierte en un trofeo bastante complicado e imposible.
    El juego esta bien pero si no cambian algunos fallos que tienen algunos modos de juego como ese,
    el juego es una basura que solo lo tocas para jugar de vez en cuando con amigos.    … Expand
  6. ShadowPeter
    Aug 8, 2019
    6
    6.5/10

    There have been a lot of arena fighters lately like The Seven Deadly Sins: Knights of Britannia, My Hero Academy: One's Justice, Jump Force and soon to arrive One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows. True, quality is sometimes dubious, but options exist. Kill la Kill The Game: IF is yet another arena fighter game for casual gamers. For those unfamiliar with the show, Kill la Kill is    6.5/10

    There have been a lot of arena fighters lately like The Seven Deadly Sins: Knights of Britannia, My Hero Academy: One's Justice, Jump Force and soon to arrive One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows. True, quality is sometimes dubious, but options exist. Kill la Kill The Game: IF is yet another arena fighter game for casual gamers. For those unfamiliar with the show, Kill la Kill is an anime stuffed with action, humor, and… pervert thing. Kill la Kill The Game: IF is developed by A + Games, overseen by Studio Trigger and has Arc System Works as the publisher, which was responsible for the development of Dragon Ball FighterZ and BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle.

    Regarding the story mode of the game, I recommend you check out the whole series before playing this title, largely because of a big plot twist. Here the story is told through cutscenes rather than simple dialogues, which is a positive point. In addition, the game's art is sublime and captures the essence of the Kill la Kill series, whether during cutscenes or during battles. The game has a total of two chapters: the Satsuki chapter and the Ryuko chapter. I can't help but admire the excellent work of the Japanese voices, as well as the game's soundtrack. Yes, it is also possible to choose English voices, which aren't bad, but could have done better work on synchronization.

    I apologize to everyone, I know this sounds more like a scratched disc but the general and basic aim in fighting games is to do the tutorials, go to training mode to train our skills and learn how to do combos before we go into battle 1 vs 1. But we also have battles 1 vs 100 covers (Musou style). In addition to the other game modes I mentioned earlier there are also modes like Free battle, Player Match, Ranked Match, Survival Challenge and Cover Challenge.

    Speaking of this Cover Challenge, we have several challenges to choose from, such as 1 min. Extermation, which consists of defending as many covers as possible in less than 1 minute, 100-Unit Extermination and Endless Extermination. About the characters in the game, unfortunately the initial roster is very poor. Only 8 characters, including Satsuki Kiryuin, Ryuko Matoi, Houka Inumuta, Ira Gamagoori, Uzu Sanageyama, Nonon Jakuzure, Nui Harime and Ragyo Kiryuin. Fortunately everyone has different skills and characteristics from one another. For example, Nonon Jakuzure specializes in ranged attacks.

    Moving on to Kill la Kill The Game: IF, ranged attacks, ranged attacks, and Guard Break are some of the things we will be doing during battles. We also have a quick and funny event that we can invoke during combat called Bloody Valor, which is similar to rock, paper, scissors. Mock (Life recovery) wins to Taunt (additional damage) and loses to Provoke (Increases SP Gauge) and the latter loses to Taunt.

    After both have chosen the options, our character or the opponent will use unfriendly words. If we win, the event continues (until we reach Valor Level 3, we win the option we have chosen, and our Valor Level increases and we gain improvements for our character. If the Bloody Valor summoner loses, the event automatically ends.

    When the Level Value is at maximum, we can perform **** (Fiber lost). And whoever gets caught by this technique automatically loses his clothes and the battle. Seeing all the characters performing their **** as well as the other attacks is very, very rewarding. However, there is a weakness that bothers me during the battles against the covers. That's right, I'm talking about the Lock-on. Because it's a real deck of cards (it shifts to this one and suddenly shifts to those and so on) and you can't pick a target.

    Strangely, online mode is only available after completing the Satsuki chapter in story mode. Unfortunately the options we have in online mode are limited because, for example, there is no tournaments, just normal battles. And anyone who has ever felt the pain of inviting our friends on Dragon Ball FighterZ and BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, knows what I'm talking about. Not having a invite button and being forced to give our friends a password to enter our room isn't practical at all. As we complete battles, we earn DP points that can be used to purchase things in Digital Figure (which we can admire and land character models), Sound Test songs, and Voice Library voices. Overall, unfortunately Kill the Kill The Game: IF suffers from a lack of options and content.

    Veredict: Kill la Kill The Game: IF is not a bad arena fighter, but it is only average because of the small roster of fighters, the problematic lock-on and the lack of options in online mode.    … Expand
  7. BesuBaru
    Jul 26, 2019
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. As a Kill la Kill fan, I'm honestly disappointed with this game.

    It looks and plays unpolished, has gamebreaking bugs (like crashing when watching certain cutscenes), and it's single-player mode is only two hours long at best, and that's not even counting that Ryuko's story mode is an almost exact copy of Satsuki's. The character selection is small, and the RNG mechanic is unnecessary. The gameplay is leagues less in-depth than a traditional ArcSys game, because it was made by one of their subsidaries, APlus, who also did the mediocre LWA game. That set off red flags for me when it got announced, but I was hoping things would be different since ArcSys said that they'd be working closely with the developers to get things right. That TeamRED, the GGXrd devs would help out get it so the characters would look 2.5D, and "help" with gameplay mechanics, but it turned out so unpolished in the end anyways.

    It also plays the cliche "JuSt A dReAm" ending. The end-game boss is a **** baby made out of life-fibers, which is actually smooth-brained. Those are the only two things that actually have story in this game.

    I'm so disappointed, because I REALLY enjoyed Kill la Kill when I first watched it, and being teased with a story mode where it centers around Satsuki sounded so great. If you're wondering why ArcSys is threatening DMCAs for anyone streaming story-mode, despite it being required to unlock any in-game content, that's because the game has little content in story mode.

    If KLK is Lord of the Rings, then this game is The Hungry Caterpillar.    … Expand
  8. chesaro
    Nov 6, 2019
    4
    Ok, i have to be clear here from the begining, i only played the demo, and it was plain garbage, it looks great, and that is it, and that is the reason i've only played the demo, the deception was too much
  9. ZeroXR
    Sep 4, 2019
    6
    Great gameplay, graphics and sound. But the game is very poor in content. Few characters, scenarios and extra things to do.
  10. Dwideshrude1
    Sep 13, 2020
    0
    Doesnt have a functioning camera, therefore the game is unplayable, therefore cannot recieve a score. What a shame.
  11. Steyraus
    Jan 15, 2021
    9
    This game is vicious. I dont think any fighter portrays the speed and craziness of an anime battle as well as Kill la Kill IF. The combat is a basic rock, paper, scissors system, but its well balanced and clevetly implented to be more than this attack beats that. The crazy visuals and fast paced action are a real treat, while at first the hand drawn look seems cheap once you realise theThis game is vicious. I dont think any fighter portrays the speed and craziness of an anime battle as well as Kill la Kill IF. The combat is a basic rock, paper, scissors system, but its well balanced and clevetly implented to be more than this attack beats that. The crazy visuals and fast paced action are a real treat, while at first the hand drawn look seems cheap once you realise the attention to every movement and dedication to the animes style it gorgeous. I really liked this fighter and would highly recomend it , give it a chance at first it seems a bit pretious asking you to sit through long cut scenes but its worth it.… Expand
  12. kems
    Oct 8, 2022
    5
    This is incredible, I can't believe this is an ArcSys game. The game is mediocre (at best) on everything except for visuals, which are really nice.

    There's A LOT of bad things about gameplay, but WHO THE HELL thought it was a good idea to implement a RNG on a fighting game?. Gosh, I don't remember playing anything more frustrating recently.
  13. tomvs123
    Nov 9, 2020
    4
    It's basically stripped-down 3D fighting game that's a retelling of the anime.

    The story is okay by anime standards. It's definitely on the weird side as you only see a small slice of the world and that slice is dominated by students fighting over super-powered cloth and clothes in preparation for the coming of the great yarn god. Well, that's basically what I got from it. Without    It's basically stripped-down 3D fighting game that's a retelling of the anime.

    The story is okay by anime standards. It's definitely on the weird side as you only see a small slice of the world and that slice is dominated by students fighting over super-powered cloth and clothes in preparation for the coming of the great yarn god. Well, that's basically what I got from it. Without spoiling anything, there is a good explanation for all of this at the end, even though that explanation is a bit cheap and lazy.

    So, on to the fighting. It's serviceable. It's in a 3D format where you're unable to control the camera - it just goes where it wants, so sometimes you're on the far side of the arena with your enemy between you and your character, which isn't ideal. You occasionally have to fight multiple enemies at once and there's no real targeting system - it just seems to choose whoever is closest to you.

    Also, it seems as though the character animations are 15 or 20fps, which seems a bit strange. this style is normally limited to 2d fighting games, such as Guilty Gear, so that you can better time your moves. But the move set in this game isn't nearly complex enough to need something like that. I would have preferred 60fps animations since the game feels more like a brawler than a serious fighting game.

    Character fighting style differences aren't very big. If you learn a move set on one character, chances are, that will translate very well to another character. The animations might look different, but they'll still do the same things (melee attacks, ranged attacked, dash attacks).

    So after you get through the 4-6 hours of story mode and have unlocked everything, there's a few more things. There's some time attacks and survival battles, though they're not very interesting. Then there's the digital figures, like in Guilty Gear. This is okay, but you don't get all of the character costumes - you only get their battle costumes. This is fine, I suppose, if you like their string/strap bikini-styled costumes, but I would have much preferred their normal clothes.

    And that's about it. If you don't plan to play this multi-player, you're only going to get about 6 hours worth of play out of this. That 6 hours isn't horrible, though it does feel like a partial game.    … Expand
  14. FleackMaun
    Aug 21, 2019
    10
    Very good game on very good anime!
    In this game, a low threshold of entry, because it is not very difficult and suitable for beginners. Also here to make a great story, but to understand it you need to know and the plot of the anime. I liked the game very much, but my opinion may differ from yours
  15. KAM1054
    Nov 16, 2021
    7
    Another anime made into a game that if you never seen the show you'll be so confused on what is happening
  16. VENOMIS13
    Jan 29, 2022
    10
    An absolute perfect arena fighter for my favorite anime every character is different to play and fun easy to pick up but hard to master the art style, soundtrack,play style and story are amazing
  17. aaronnmp96
    Feb 3, 2023
    6
    A good game, I am quite a fan of this anime, and the gameplay is very good, it has few characters, it is the most negative point
  18. TyeBuster
    Apr 6, 2023
    6
    Not bad, but not good either - absolutely mid. For huge Kill la Kill fans this game maybe very interesting, nor for everybody else.

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  1. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Aug 27, 2019
    60
    With a light and airy story, a number of insubstantial game modes and a limited roster of characters, this is a package that has about as much substance as the twin protagonist’s battle suits. It’s one for Lady Satsuki’s Elite Four, assorted devotees and few others. We’d rather be watching the series. [Issue#166, p.84]
  2. Gameblog.fr
    Aug 21, 2019
    60
    Kill La Kill - IF is a pretty descent fighting game, with a good but very simplistic gameplay, a new alternative story well told, but the lack of content is obvious. Fans only.
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  3. LaPS4
    Aug 13, 2019
    77
    The developer has managed to adapt the anime quite faithfully. However, by focusing mainly on the story they have neglected other important aspects of the game, such as the limitation of characters, modes and combat scenarios. However, the pace of frantic fighting and how well it is achieved, adaptation can become a fan.
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