Recent reviews by Lik

My cat is very interested in the colonists and zombies moving around. :3/10

I came into this game expecting U-boat and Carrier Deck. This is not what I got.

THAT SAID.

It's a fun enough game in it's own right, once you get the hang of it. It's a little obtuse and arcane to learn at first, which makes getting the hang of it take longer. Many of the missions are extremely hard, but I haven't been actually prevented from completing one yet, just needed to retry a few times if I let a big attack wave slip through or missed a window to send out a strike wave. Sometimes the deck handling could be a bit faster, but the problem is alleviated somewhat by being more efficient with orders (sending up planes so they line up in the correct order, sending planes back to the hangar before switching the deck to landing mode, etc) and alleviated moreso when you get to the final carrier model which lets you move an entire squadron at once on it's various elevators.

Graphics are very not good. Sometimes it's difficult to tell where a particular officer or DC team is without selecting them and only them, the optional airstrike cinematics are exceptionally bad, and ships don't move how ships really would some times, most notably the resupply ship tokyo drifts over to you and away when you give the order to resupply.

All in all, very difficult to get into, and not at all what I expected coming in, but I'm having fun at least and that's what really matters isn't it?

Ah yes, let's implement character #57262 that also spams unblockable hits and can light attack before guards switch sides just like every other new character rather than trying to bring existing characters into any semblance of balance.

Edit after another year or two: Of course, now ubi wants balance but the wrong kind of balance, where no one can ever land any attack that isn't one of three ubisoft specified guaranteed hits your character ever has because everyone outside of the original cast can shift their guard in less than a tenth of a second so unless you're playing against someone with no hands like me, so it's just L after L after L because it's not a strategic fighting game any more where you can actually bait out a counter to then counter that yourself and make your own combos by doing so. Instead it's just OOK OOK MONKEY BRAIN PREDICT THIS ATTACK only sometimes being right and whoever is right more often wins unless one of you is playing an older hero, like mine, in which case none of your attacks will ever land because you still have slow attacks that can actually be reacted to as all of them really should be but no one else does and even if they were able to be reacted to your guard still doesn't change in time to block anything unless you catch it the literal millisecond they send the attack and you better hope they don't just feint and send it the other way because now you have to wait for it to flip both ways and they've hit you before you even finish the first flip.

Oh and did I mention that people with practically no skill and people with very high skill who've been playing continuously for years get matched into the same games all the time because you can't opt out of the matchmaker broadening the skill range to max after 1 minute of queue and therefore choose to wait an extra 5 minutes for an actually balanced match instead of immediately being thrown into the first match against people you have no place fighting? Because that's a thing.

Slow it all down ubi. All of it. Stamina regen, animations, every single thing needs to be slowed back down so the entire game is not just SPAM LIGHT ATTACK SPAM LIGHT ATTACK SPAM HEAVY ATTACK THAT'S FASTER THAN SOME HEROES' LIGHT ATTACKS.