I think this game is super fun! A unique idea that I think works very well as an online team game. I was thinking it was going to be something like Smash Bros., and wasn't expecting a sports-like scoring game, but I think I prefer it that way. It's original! I thought I was just going to wrap up playing after 100% completion, but I've found myself still finding it very enjoyable!
Not only that, but it's really cool to see an online team game that isn't a shooter. I can't name many others at the top of my head.
Though I'm rating it four stars, I can't really think of anything else it could add to it to make it better. As a platforming fighting game, it works and it's great, but I guess it's just locked at that.
It's fun to control, all the characters quite balanced, and its sense of humour and tendency to not take itself too seriously a lot of the time had me laughing my head off playing at times! All the maps provide something fun and unique too. With stuff like the relic stations giving you different abilities, the starting locations and banks being either super close together or very far apart, and even there being scalability and difficulty ratings for each map, games can be super chaotic but also require lots of strategy and teamwork to win. I gotta love the dynamic music when you boost your team, too!
My only little complaint though is that you need PlayStation Plus to play it, even for the practice with bots mode. But if you're getting this game, you're going to have PS Plus anyway so it doesn't matter too much. What would be really cool to see would be a single or multiplayer story mode, though, that features all the characters! Plus, it's honestly kind of hard to find players in matchmaking, so maybe that would be good to include for newcomers who would then perhaps try out the online mode.
This game does have "fear of missing out" elements though, with a battlepass, and hopefully they'll bring some items back sometime in the future. I started playing in the middle of season 3 so there is a bit I missed out on. But it's really just a couple of character skins, profile banners and performance songs though, and I got over it quickly. I can at least praise this game for not having an item shop and don't plan one any time soon.
Anyway, I'm really enjoying the regular updates and hoping the game will have lots more to come. The Spyro characters are such a fun addition and I hope they add more of them too! Crash and Spyro crossovers are perfect. I personally play as Crash and Elora the most, and they are a blast.
Not only that, but it's really cool to see an online team game that isn't a shooter. I can't name many others at the top of my head.
Though I'm rating it four stars, I can't really think of anything else it could add to it to make it better. As a platforming fighting game, it works and it's great, but I guess it's just locked at that.
It's fun to control, all the characters quite balanced, and its sense of humour and tendency to not take itself too seriously a lot of the time had me laughing my head off playing at times! All the maps provide something fun and unique too. With stuff like the relic stations giving you different abilities, the starting locations and banks being either super close together or very far apart, and even there being scalability and difficulty ratings for each map, games can be super chaotic but also require lots of strategy and teamwork to win. I gotta love the dynamic music when you boost your team, too!
My only little complaint though is that you need PlayStation Plus to play it, even for the practice with bots mode. But if you're getting this game, you're going to have PS Plus anyway so it doesn't matter too much. What would be really cool to see would be a single or multiplayer story mode, though, that features all the characters! Plus, it's honestly kind of hard to find players in matchmaking, so maybe that would be good to include for newcomers who would then perhaps try out the online mode.
This game does have "fear of missing out" elements though, with a battlepass, and hopefully they'll bring some items back sometime in the future. I started playing in the middle of season 3 so there is a bit I missed out on. But it's really just a couple of character skins, profile banners and performance songs though, and I got over it quickly. I can at least praise this game for not having an item shop and don't plan one any time soon.
Anyway, I'm really enjoying the regular updates and hoping the game will have lots more to come. The Spyro characters are such a fun addition and I hope they add more of them too! Crash and Spyro crossovers are perfect. I personally play as Crash and Elora the most, and they are a blast.