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I think RPDR could be a great basis for a video game if it was done well, but not like this.
This is a formulaic mobile game that plays it very safe, and is cladded in sanitized drag race marketing words to the point where it felt like an ironic joke - but it wasn't. Unfortunately nothing about the gameplay was interesting to me.
To quote Gia Gunn, ‘I was so bored…’
This is a formulaic mobile game that plays it very safe, and is cladded in sanitized drag race marketing words to the point where it felt like an ironic joke - but it wasn't. Unfortunately nothing about the gameplay was interesting to me.
To quote Gia Gunn, ‘I was so bored…’
This is the definition of a game that looks worse by modern standards. Mobile gaming was a lot less capable back then, and being able to play a game on the go was a novelty in and of itself – that was the appeal of this game, I think.
It was a very basic port of Tekken 3 for the Gameboy advance and lacked a lot of Tekken 3’s features, as well as gameplay depth and obviously the graphics were much more compressed.
I’ve ranked it this low because of how it stands today as a game. Normally I rank old games higher if I have a sentimental attachment to them, but even though I had this growing up – I don’t feel very attached to it.
It was a very basic port of Tekken 3 for the Gameboy advance and lacked a lot of Tekken 3’s features, as well as gameplay depth and obviously the graphics were much more compressed.
I’ve ranked it this low because of how it stands today as a game. Normally I rank old games higher if I have a sentimental attachment to them, but even though I had this growing up – I don’t feel very attached to it.
This review contains spoilers
I'm very fond of this entry to the series because it took a big risk and switched up the status quo, something fighting games rarely do nowadays.
The story of the series had been centring around Siegfried and Nightmare's conflict for the previous 4 instalments and I was desperate for a change, so this was a really welcome change. In fact, with the way things were at 4 things were beginning to feel stale so a shake-up was absolutely in order.
The story focuses on Patroklos & Pyrrha, characters introduced as early as Soul Calibur and acting as the new hosts of the Soul swords. These characters and the story's focus on them is widely criticized and yes, they are very tropey/shallow characters - but then, I do not think the series has shown us particularly deep characters before either - so it was expected. It would have been nice to have had as much attention given to the rest of the cast and a more complex story mode, but I enjoyed the story given and the ending theme is lovely too.
Another common criticism is for culling the cast and replacing fan favourites with new characters. I don't mind this personally, but it is a pet peeve of mine when the male characters are allowed to age and the female characters must remain either eternally youthful or be replaced when they hit their 30s... I would have loved to see an older and wiser Taki in this game, for example.
It is unfortunate the game was so badly received and I feel as though this has injured the series in a way it has not yet fully recovered from. I do not feel that the game itself is entirely to blame though, and I don't agree with the majority on that.
The story of the series had been centring around Siegfried and Nightmare's conflict for the previous 4 instalments and I was desperate for a change, so this was a really welcome change. In fact, with the way things were at 4 things were beginning to feel stale so a shake-up was absolutely in order.
The story focuses on Patroklos & Pyrrha, characters introduced as early as Soul Calibur and acting as the new hosts of the Soul swords. These characters and the story's focus on them is widely criticized and yes, they are very tropey/shallow characters - but then, I do not think the series has shown us particularly deep characters before either - so it was expected. It would have been nice to have had as much attention given to the rest of the cast and a more complex story mode, but I enjoyed the story given and the ending theme is lovely too.
Another common criticism is for culling the cast and replacing fan favourites with new characters. I don't mind this personally, but it is a pet peeve of mine when the male characters are allowed to age and the female characters must remain either eternally youthful or be replaced when they hit their 30s... I would have loved to see an older and wiser Taki in this game, for example.
It is unfortunate the game was so badly received and I feel as though this has injured the series in a way it has not yet fully recovered from. I do not feel that the game itself is entirely to blame though, and I don't agree with the majority on that.