Blade Ii
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review by Matt S.Blade II is a good example of everything wrong with the điện thoại gaming space. It"s a shallow, vapid, & completely pointless waste of time to play. Removing the microtransactions và free-to-play monetisation & instead asking people to drop money on it up-front doesn"t fix things, either. If anything it makes it worse, because now all the elements in Blade II that were designed around the monetisation mã sản phẩm exist without any context whatsoever.The problem with Blade II - and far too many other điện thoại titles, is the way that it has been designed. In principle this is a brawler, and something of a set between Diablo & the earlier God of War titles. You"ll run through a gauntlet of basic enemy battles, before getting to lớn a trùm. Put that boss down và you can move sầu lớn the next màn chơi. The first issue is how short these levels are. Because free-to-play monetisation relies on you spending a lot of time in menus & outside of the gameplay itself (because that"s where they can offer you cool stuff in exchange for cash), levels are over in just a couple of minutes. Because they"re over so quickly, they"re overloaded with the combat stuff, with nary a second dedicated to anything that doesn"t involve killing things. The blink-and-you"ll-miss-it action never gets a chance lớn set a scene và create atmosphere, let alone be creative with enemy designs, or offer interesting levels khổng lồ explore, and that"s all because the developer wants you lớn spover more time in the menu than actually playing the thing.Compounding this issue is the lack of context or substance lớn anything you"re doing. Blade II is - I think - meant lớn be a gothic horror adventure, but there"s no effort that has gone into anything not immediately responsible for driving players forward. Anything more than a line of dialogue just isn"t efficient enough for a Mobile game, và as a result Blade II"s narrative progresses at little more than a text box or two, doled out per level. That"s not enough room khổng lồ create anything even approaching interesting characters or personalities with this structure. Hell, I couldn"t even work out if the developers were aiming for something satirical or serious in nature while I was playing. Twitter is an irritating platform at the best of times. We don"t need to lớn start telling our stories as though it were delivered through tweets.
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If you"re not playing for some kind of interesting narrative, then, what is meant to push you through Blade II? Why, stars, of course. At the conclusion of each màn chơi you"ll earn between zero and three stars, based on whether you"d completed optional objectives within each level. Those objectives are generally tied inkhổng lồ playing the game in a certain way - blocking and counter-attacking a certain number of attacks, for example, or using fewer than a certain number of abilities. It just comes across as a clumsy attempt khổng lồ try và hide how poor the combat system is by hiding the rewards behind useless abilities. For example, the block button is atrocious. In order lớn lvà a counter-attaông xã, you need to lớn time the block perfectly, which is hard enough when you"re facing one enemy, thanks to the kích thước of the screen on the Nintenvì Switch and the minimalist animation of the enemies and their attack routines. When you face two or more enemies, the melee is such a blur that you"ll over up rapid-fire pressing the button & hoping khổng lồ launch a counter attach through sheer luck.The three-star system is also a less-than-subtle way to lớn lengthen the game by forcing you to trả lời levels over & over again in order to "complete" them. I intensely dislike games built around a single player experience that vì this. A developer that would force you to repeat levels simply because that"s the only real goal of playing is a developer that has no respect for your time. Particularly when there"s no context lớn that action. It"s like the developers felt that their work was self-evidently enjoyable & players would appreciate the repetition for the superficial gains và the pleasure of seeing a full score card of three-star ratings. If so, the developers vastly over-estimated their talents.If you were expecting the moment-to-moment action khổng lồ be at least enjoyable, you"re in for a let-down. In addition to the clumsy mess that Blade II descends inkhổng lồ every time there"s more than a few enemies on screen, skills are poorly balanced, &, considering that you"ll be unlocking them until màn chơi 60 or thereabouts, there"s so little meaningful difference from one special lớn the next to lớn make earning any of them inspiring. In combat each ability has a timer, và because the standard attacks & block/counter-attaông chồng button are so weak & worthless, respectively, you"ll kết thúc up running around in circles waiting for the specials to lớn become active again. This is particularly true of the bosses. It doesn"t make for interesting or dynamic action.
Nothing in Blade II has a sense of permanency lớn it either. Equipment degrades after a couple of levels, forcing you lớn constantly replace bits of equipment. Of course, with the mobile game, this was because the developer wanted you to lớn spend money on getting awesome, rare bits of loot. On the Switch it just feels lượt thích yet another arbitrary system that will make you not even want to lớn use your coolest weapons. Other games have durability systems, sure, but with them it"s baked into the theme of the game, or alternatively it"s part of the challenge. With Blade II, you"ll eventually be able lớn overcome any challenge simply by button mashing your way through và grinding away levels. The equipment system is a thinly-veiled advertisement khổng lồ flog off digital junk... only, again, with the Nintendo Switch version you can"t actually spkết thúc money on the loot, making the equipment system feel completely pointless.Blade II is a great example of what happens when you let a content-driven business make a content-driven game. There"s plenty in there to lớn vày, but doing any of it is a complete waste of time. Sadly, games like Blade II are far too comtháng, and happen right up and down the industry, from the tiny indies making sản phẩm điện thoại titles, right through lớn the biggest companies churning out the blockbusters. The contentification of đoạn phim games is a plague, và Blade II is one of the most egregious examples of that.
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If you"re not playing for some kind of interesting narrative, then, what is meant to push you through Blade II? Why, stars, of course. At the conclusion of each màn chơi you"ll earn between zero and three stars, based on whether you"d completed optional objectives within each level. Those objectives are generally tied inkhổng lồ playing the game in a certain way - blocking and counter-attacking a certain number of attacks, for example, or using fewer than a certain number of abilities. It just comes across as a clumsy attempt khổng lồ try và hide how poor the combat system is by hiding the rewards behind useless abilities. For example, the block button is atrocious. In order lớn lvà a counter-attaông xã, you need to lớn time the block perfectly, which is hard enough when you"re facing one enemy, thanks to the kích thước of the screen on the Nintenvì Switch and the minimalist animation of the enemies and their attack routines. When you face two or more enemies, the melee is such a blur that you"ll over up rapid-fire pressing the button & hoping khổng lồ launch a counter attach through sheer luck.The three-star system is also a less-than-subtle way to lớn lengthen the game by forcing you to trả lời levels over & over again in order to "complete" them. I intensely dislike games built around a single player experience that vì this. A developer that would force you to repeat levels simply because that"s the only real goal of playing is a developer that has no respect for your time. Particularly when there"s no context lớn that action. It"s like the developers felt that their work was self-evidently enjoyable & players would appreciate the repetition for the superficial gains và the pleasure of seeing a full score card of three-star ratings. If so, the developers vastly over-estimated their talents.If you were expecting the moment-to-moment action khổng lồ be at least enjoyable, you"re in for a let-down. In addition to the clumsy mess that Blade II descends inkhổng lồ every time there"s more than a few enemies on screen, skills are poorly balanced, &, considering that you"ll be unlocking them until màn chơi 60 or thereabouts, there"s so little meaningful difference from one special lớn the next to lớn make earning any of them inspiring. In combat each ability has a timer, và because the standard attacks & block/counter-attaông chồng button are so weak & worthless, respectively, you"ll kết thúc up running around in circles waiting for the specials to lớn become active again. This is particularly true of the bosses. It doesn"t make for interesting or dynamic action.
Nothing in Blade II has a sense of permanency lớn it either. Equipment degrades after a couple of levels, forcing you lớn constantly replace bits of equipment. Of course, with the mobile game, this was because the developer wanted you to lớn spend money on getting awesome, rare bits of loot. On the Switch it just feels lượt thích yet another arbitrary system that will make you not even want to lớn use your coolest weapons. Other games have durability systems, sure, but with them it"s baked into the theme of the game, or alternatively it"s part of the challenge. With Blade II, you"ll eventually be able lớn overcome any challenge simply by button mashing your way through và grinding away levels. The equipment system is a thinly-veiled advertisement khổng lồ flog off digital junk... only, again, with the Nintendo Switch version you can"t actually spkết thúc money on the loot, making the equipment system feel completely pointless.Blade II is a great example of what happens when you let a content-driven business make a content-driven game. There"s plenty in there to lớn vày, but doing any of it is a complete waste of time. Sadly, games like Blade II are far too comtháng, and happen right up and down the industry, from the tiny indies making sản phẩm điện thoại titles, right through lớn the biggest companies churning out the blockbusters. The contentification of đoạn phim games is a plague, và Blade II is one of the most egregious examples of that.
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Item Reviewed: Review: Blade II - The Return Of Evil (Nintenvị Switch)9 out of 10 based on 10 ratings. 9 user Đánh Giá.
