...or whatever the title is now. I got a chance to play it at Evo and feel significantly worse about the game now. The setup was pretty cool, with couches and a bunch of consoles and controllers, so you can tell they're really pushing the party game vibe and classic SSB feel, but that's where the good stopped. The controls are responsive enough, but the game plays like ass. You have a jump button mapped to X and three different special attacks (not the supers) mapped to the other face buttons. That's pretty much the extent of the important controls, save the supers, but I'll get to that.
I played Nathan Drake and his attacks all felt weak and pointless. I could push a barrel at someone (that would later explode, but not on contact...), shoot a gun at a fixed angle from the air, melee attack, and a couple other moves. None of which had any weight to them and they all felt pointless. Essentially you attack for the sole purpose of building meter for supers, which are the only way to kill. His level one and two supers are completely pointless (toss a propane tank in a fixed arc which you can then shoot to explode or push a column over onto people...wow) and I never even got to his level three. That could be my unfamiliarity with the game, OR it could be that the game is hopelessly broken because of one character: Big Daddy.
This dude has massive area of effect attacks, slams people across the screen, and has the biggest hit boxes on his attacks that I've seen in a game. When he's in a match, people go flying and he builds meter insanely fast. When he gets his level 3 off, everyone gets submerged in water and FREEZES. You can't do anything at all. I could have understood a slow down effect, but nope, you just freeze where you were when he launched the attack. The super probably lasts a good ten-fifteen seconds and when he kills you in it, you respawn and are immediately frozen in place again. Absolutely terrible and unless they take the freezing portion out of the move or make it only last like two seconds it'll be impossible to balance in the final game.
I don't want to rant anymore because, in case you couldn't tell, I hated the game. I tried it on Vita too and it's basically the same game so it's not worth talking about. Feel free to ask questions if you have them but it's a pretty simple game and I'm not sure there's even much to discuss.
I played Nathan Drake and his attacks all felt weak and pointless. I could push a barrel at someone (that would later explode, but not on contact...), shoot a gun at a fixed angle from the air, melee attack, and a couple other moves. None of which had any weight to them and they all felt pointless. Essentially you attack for the sole purpose of building meter for supers, which are the only way to kill. His level one and two supers are completely pointless (toss a propane tank in a fixed arc which you can then shoot to explode or push a column over onto people...wow) and I never even got to his level three. That could be my unfamiliarity with the game, OR it could be that the game is hopelessly broken because of one character: Big Daddy.
This dude has massive area of effect attacks, slams people across the screen, and has the biggest hit boxes on his attacks that I've seen in a game. When he's in a match, people go flying and he builds meter insanely fast. When he gets his level 3 off, everyone gets submerged in water and FREEZES. You can't do anything at all. I could have understood a slow down effect, but nope, you just freeze where you were when he launched the attack. The super probably lasts a good ten-fifteen seconds and when he kills you in it, you respawn and are immediately frozen in place again. Absolutely terrible and unless they take the freezing portion out of the move or make it only last like two seconds it'll be impossible to balance in the final game.
I don't want to rant anymore because, in case you couldn't tell, I hated the game. I tried it on Vita too and it's basically the same game so it's not worth talking about. Feel free to ask questions if you have them but it's a pretty simple game and I'm not sure there's even much to discuss.
