This game is a weird one. I more or less like the fact it exists for how it looks and the music, but apart from that it's nothing amazing. The game looks incredible due to the impressive pixel art that also manages to imitate Bryan Lee O'Malley's art style at the same time. The soundtrack by Anamanaguchi is the stuff of legend, and I listen to it regularly. Most of the songs are way too catchy and high energy to correlate with the overall mood of Scott Pilgrim.
As for the game, it's clearly a rush job. The first level is steller and sells the game quite well, but then it instantly falls off with most of the creativity shown in the first level evaporating before your eyes. Combat is the exact same every time, with it boiling down to punching until someone is down, punching until they stop blocking, or blocking until they stop punching. You can argue this is just the nature of beat-em-ups, but it compared to others similar to this one, they handle move pools and how fights are played out much better.
This game also has a major balancing issue. You will feel incredibly underpowered and will game over a lot until you buy items from the shops (which you may pass half the time because they blend it with the rest of the background elements sometimes.) However, once you do this, you end up feeling far too overpowered and then the game suddenly becomes a god mod simulator.
Apart from the first boss in the game, Matthew Patel, all the bosses walk around their arena, attack you with the same three moves, flash orange when they're nearly dead, then die. This once again highlights the difference in quality between the game's first level and the rest of the game. Due to the game's hellish development, the first 20 minutes of the game are great, then the rest is just a "get it out the door" job.
Overall this game falls disappointingly short due to it being rushed out, and while it's nice that it was brought back due to everyone begging for it, I think people just wanted it to kind of exist instead of really playing it.
As for the game, it's clearly a rush job. The first level is steller and sells the game quite well, but then it instantly falls off with most of the creativity shown in the first level evaporating before your eyes. Combat is the exact same every time, with it boiling down to punching until someone is down, punching until they stop blocking, or blocking until they stop punching. You can argue this is just the nature of beat-em-ups, but it compared to others similar to this one, they handle move pools and how fights are played out much better.
This game also has a major balancing issue. You will feel incredibly underpowered and will game over a lot until you buy items from the shops (which you may pass half the time because they blend it with the rest of the background elements sometimes.) However, once you do this, you end up feeling far too overpowered and then the game suddenly becomes a god mod simulator.
Apart from the first boss in the game, Matthew Patel, all the bosses walk around their arena, attack you with the same three moves, flash orange when they're nearly dead, then die. This once again highlights the difference in quality between the game's first level and the rest of the game. Due to the game's hellish development, the first 20 minutes of the game are great, then the rest is just a "get it out the door" job.
Overall this game falls disappointingly short due to it being rushed out, and while it's nice that it was brought back due to everyone begging for it, I think people just wanted it to kind of exist instead of really playing it.