A short (6-9 hours) hack 'n slash game with little replayability and repetitive combat that doesn't go near matching the feel or quality of the show in anything but superficial. GE is mediocre - doubly so for it's price and paywalled JNPR, but only borders being outright bad.


Grimm Eclipse squanders the immense creative freedom for movesets and mechanics that the RWBY IP allows. Team RWBY all walk, run, sprint, dash, and jump the same mechanically. Ruby features no unique gimmick, Weiss features a janky stunlock in her standard set that highly rewards low risk cowardice, Blake might as well be a second Ruby, and Yang has a full ult bar recharge when her aura shatters.

Grimm themselves aren't accurately done in GE even before considering their low variety. Time to Kill (TTK) & enemy portions are in an awkward place between horde slasher and having you work for your kills. Despite the grimm's biggest canonical threat being their absolute gargantuan numbers and propensity to brutally horde rush things, groups of grimm act more like batman/spiderman enemies by... taking turns attacking and trying to maintain a middle distance.

Speaking of grimm, even superficially GE sometimes misses the mark: Grimm dismemberment has been in RWBY since the red trailer but in GE it's the half-life vaporize effect without any fanfare or relevance to what you hit them with. If the game needs a new wave of grimm because the small group they gave you died, more enemies are simply teleported in.


GE is a game for RWBY fans looking to buy RWBY content. As a hack n' slash Metal Gear Rising is better in almost every single aspect; TTK, music, proper cutscenes, actual dismemberment, character expression and development, performance, parrying, controls, & skill ceiling. MGR has the slight disadvantages of sometimes wonky camera movements & less immediate modding.

RWBY:GE is canon and set between volume 2 and volume 3.

+Explore a very small selection of decent rwby environments from the show

+Unofficial mod support.

-Minimal replayability on top of low content; Stages have little to no paths & don't deviate between runs. Different non-dlc characters devolve to similar tactics when difficulty increases. A level up tree does exist but different builds don't change playstyle enough to fix low content.

-Non-rebindable controls. No pausing in SP. Terrible optimization. Linear levels from sometimes linear terrain and other times completely invisible walls.

-Generic plot that despite being canon isn't referenced in the show

-A total of 5 grimm and elemental/alpha versions appear, nevermore, king taiju, goliath (all should be notable for having their appearances in the show during this game's canon timeline), and every grimm introduced in or after volume 3 and since-released works(e.g manga, comics) aren't included


Note: I don't own the jnpr dlc and never will so I can't review the extended roster. :shrug:

A short (6-9 hours) hack 'n slash game with little replayability and repetitive combat that doesn't go near matching the feel or quality of the show in anything but superficial. GE is mediocre - doubly so for it's price and paywalled JNPR, but only borders being outright bad. Grimm Eclipse squanders the immense creative freedom for movesets and mechanics that the RWBY IP allows. Team RWBY all walk, run, sprint, dash, and jump the same mechanically. Ruby features no unique gimmick, Weiss features a janky stunlock in her standard set that highly rewards low risk cowardice, Blake might as well be a second Ruby, and Yang has a full ult bar recharge when her aura shatters. Grimm themselves aren't accurately done in GE even before considering their low variety. Time to Kill (TTK) & enemy portions are in an awkward place between horde slasher and having you work for your kills. Despite the grimm's biggest canonical threat being their absolute gargantuan numbers and propensity to brutally horde rush things, groups of grimm act more like batman/spiderman enemies by... taking turns attacking and trying to maintain a middle distance. Speaking of grimm, even superficially GE sometimes misses the mark: Grimm dismemberment has been in RWBY since the red trailer but in GE it's the half-life vaporize effect without any fanfare or relevance to what you hit them with. If the game needs a new wave of grimm because the small group they gave you died, more enemies are simply teleported in. GE is a game for RWBY fans looking to buy RWBY content. As a hack n' slash [url=https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/235460/METAL_GEAR_RISING_REVENGEANCE/]Metal Gear Rising[/url] is better in almost every single aspect; TTK, music, proper cutscenes, actual dismemberment, character expression and development, performance, parrying, controls, & skill ceiling. MGR has the slight disadvantages of sometimes wonky camera movements & less immediate modding. RWBY:GE is canon and set between volume 2 and volume 3. [H1]The Good:[/h1] +Explore a very small selection of decent rwby environments from the show +[url=http://steamproxy.net/app/418340/discussions/6/]Unofficial mod support[/url]. [h1]The Bad[/h1] -Minimal replayability on top of low content; Stages have little to no paths & don't deviate between runs. Different non-dlc characters devolve to similar tactics when difficulty increases. A level up tree does exist but different builds don't change playstyle enough to fix low content. -Non-rebindable controls. No pausing in SP. Terrible optimization. Linear levels from sometimes linear terrain and other times completely invisible walls. -Generic plot that despite being canon isn't referenced in the show -A total of 5 grimm and elemental/alpha versions appear, [spoiler]nevermore, king taiju, goliath (all should be notable for having their appearances in the show during this game's canon timeline),[/spoiler] and [spoiler]every grimm introduced in or after volume 3 and since-released works(e.g manga, comics)[/spoiler] aren't included Note: [u]I don't own the jnpr dlc and never will so I can't review the extended roster.[/u] :shrug: