Pretty much garbage. Gameplay is almost non-existent and is primarily grinding stats, watching those stats drop, grinding more stats, and then watching your dude roll dice to win a fight, except the dice rolls are mostly all obscured, so you don't even get real feedback to work with to optimize your options. I've seen attacks with high accuracy, high damage, and low energy cost end up hitting less often, less powerful, and consume more energy than "worse" attacks. Status effects give no real feedback on how effective they are, and they last only one or two attacks. Your only real fight interaction is sometimes swapping out skills to adapt to your energy costs, and that's about it.

Writing is bad, ending is nonsensical, and there's so much forced dialogue and cutscenes that eat up a ton of your time. Game is glitchy, consuming your resources at random and making certain events break in various ways. The "free DLC" is forced and makes you spend resources just to look at poorly written cutscenes where two people stand in a room while text bubbles pop up, with no real warning that the game is about to steal your bus fare and two minutes of your time yet again.

The various game and film references are fun, but it's literally as intelligent as putting up Bloodsport posters and having guys named Ryu and Ken show up in karate gi, so it's not like it makes up for the writing. The rest of the decision-making in the game, which amounts to choosing fights, choosing story routes, and choosing builds, is sadly one-dimensional and effectively amounts to picking one of three builds, picking good or "evil?", and just keeping up with matches to keep your resources up.

On the upside, this was $2. I got to grab every achievement while binge streaming. I was drunk one night and this was super easy to play and not worry about ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up. But this is definitely barely scraping the definition of "game" and is not worth any more than the $2 I paid. I can't imagine the sequel will be much of an improvement over this.

Pretty much garbage. Gameplay is almost non-existent and is primarily grinding stats, watching those stats drop, grinding more stats, and then watching your dude roll dice to win a fight, except the dice rolls are mostly all obscured, so you don't even get real feedback to work with to optimize your options. I've seen attacks with high accuracy, high damage, and low energy cost end up hitting less often, less powerful, and consume more energy than "worse" attacks. Status effects give no real feedback on how effective they are, and they last only one or two attacks. Your only real fight interaction is sometimes swapping out skills to adapt to your energy costs, and that's about it. Writing is bad, ending is nonsensical, and there's so much forced dialogue and cutscenes that eat up a ton of your time. Game is glitchy, consuming your resources at random and making certain events break in various ways. The "free DLC" is forced and makes you spend resources just to look at poorly written cutscenes where two people stand in a room while text bubbles pop up, with no real warning that the game is about to steal your bus fare and two minutes of your time yet again. The various game and film references are fun, but it's literally as intelligent as putting up Bloodsport posters and having guys named Ryu and Ken show up in karate gi, so it's not like it makes up for the writing. The rest of the decision-making in the game, which amounts to choosing fights, choosing story routes, and choosing builds, is sadly one-dimensional and effectively amounts to picking one of three builds, picking good or "evil?", and just keeping up with matches to keep your resources up. On the upside, this was $2. I got to grab every achievement while binge streaming. I was drunk one night and this was super easy to play and not worry about fucking up. But this is definitely barely scraping the definition of "game" and is not worth any more than the $2 I paid. I can't imagine the sequel will be much of an improvement over this.