Recent reviews by FrankSteak

Fantastic game as always Fromsoft.

11/10

Gameplay: 10
Difficulty: 10
Teamwork: 3 (needs VOIP so bad)
Bosses: 10
Items/Builds: 11

For $40 we got a new take on Souls that's fresh, challenging, and just as mysterious as the base game.
2 unlockable characters at launch. My prayers are answered.

I'm a huge Bleach fan, but without the Bleach IP, this game feels like a mess. The combat mechanics are borderline mobile game quality. Here’s a breakdown of what I think:

Pros:
Bleach

Cons:
Crazy Load Times: Just getting into the game is randomly longer than other times.The game often loads before the loading animation even finishes, because of this i didnt see the true load screen was a Bleach Rebirth of souls logo for around 40 minutes.

Shallow Combat Mechanics: The combat is incredibly limited. You’re stuck doing repetitive combos like X-X-X-X or Y-Y-Y no mixing up moves, no variation. It’s mostly just X-X-X-X, A, and then holding RT. Other than that each character has around 3 more moves basically none of which stagger and leave you wide open, also the soul strike move or whatever is about a 6 second cutscene. you will watch that constantly per fight.Constantly without being able to skip.

Unbalanced Attack Ranges: Some characters have ridiculous attack ranges. Norrita’s X is basically a something closer than a close-range move, while his Y reaches 3 - 4 charecter lengths. The AI punishes you hard for any shallow moves.

Unbalanced Characters: Some characters are way stronger than others in ways that don’t make sense. Why is Soul Society Ichigo almost S-tier just because of his speed and range? It feels like design favoritism.

Boring Story Mode: The story mode is basically a visual novel. It would be more enjoyable if the dialogue wasn’t so slow to load, and if I could interact with it in some way. Without something like Naruto UNS for comparison, I might have enjoyed reading all the dialogue, but as it stands, it’s just a Grueling load screen fest.

Pointless Grand Fisher Fight: The Grand Fisher fight feels like a filler. He only does three moves and barely engages with Ichigo sometimes even outright prances around the map. Plus, you get the weaker Ichigo to fight him, which turns it into a drawn-out struggle of landing charged B attacks before he beats you.

Clunky Ranged Characters: Some ranged characters, like Uryu, feel overpowered in a frustrating way. He can spam his X-X-X combo in your face, especially if your characters X doesnt have decent range good luck landing something before his arrows get you, if you are unlucky enough to pick someone with a small X range the fights already on hard mode.

Lack of Basic Fighting Mechanics: There’s no perfect parry, perfect block, or advanced dodging mechanics nothing you’d expect from a modern fighting game. You just dodge and hope your X hits, with a long cool down.

Outdated Models and Physics: The character models look like they’re from the PS3 era, and the physics are awful. Ichigo’s movement looks stiff, and his clothes don’t sway at all—just static polygons that feel disconnected from the rest of his character giving him extra hitboxes to land on his cloth boxy appendages.

All of this in less than an hour of game play. Honestly, the PlayStation Dynasty Warriors Bleach clone felt like 10 times the game this shallow fighter is trying to be. with titles like Nightrein for $40 coming out soon. this $60 phone game is a must not.

Edit: somehow I forgot this. Hearing strike back in that South Park voice 50 times per fight is rough, and why beat up on a win? Just why?

***OFFICIAL STEAKHOUSE REVIEW***
Long time Souls Lover,
this game is the greatest love note from From soft.
this is basically a massive Souls game with boss after boss after boss.
with friends or solo this game offers so much, well worth the price.
my friends and i often say if they would have charged double we would pay it.

Highly recommend, don't miss this game you will regret it.

Pros
Great RPG
good story
visuals look great
very strong dnd feel
more than one way to complete an objective

cons
mods break the game
many QOL improvements not happening (camera angles, fast transfer from inv. to inv.)
you will restart the game 2,000 times to play with certain friends and end up burning out of fort joy very quick
no solid non story mode stories.

overall 10/10 game when i found a friend to go through the entire game with i was addicted and wanted to finish the game, and once i finished i wanted to remake right there. spent 200+ hours playing will play much more.

2d smash bros basically, fun to play hard to master gets my blood pumping, legit play 1v2 ranked before i work out and it gets me going everytime.

I have played this game and several like it, after all this time and 1 attempt at getting my money back, i have concluded this game is created by an unexpirienced dev who doesnt care at all about consumer reviews. It feels like the main dev is so occupied updating everything other than the obvious issues this game has now it being 4 years old. hardly anything in this game is fluid melee attacking feels worse than anything i have ever played hands down. i have seen the zombies go from doscile ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to cocain addicted leg breakers from breathing on you, which was funny however for the money i spent years ago for this early access game i am incredibly un happy with how far this game has come. at 170 hours in i finally got fed up with how infested the game was with cheaters/hackers and i wrote to the dev team saying i would like a refund because this problem hasnt been fixed or hardly adressed in years, they responded with simply this is part of early access games and believe me i understand that but i dont think early access was ever meant to last this long especially for such an ill equip'd team.

tl;dr: game feels abandoned and lacts any leadership with promosing goals for the future, and my punctuation and spelling is horrible, thanks

this game suprised me this really is the fix i wanted from watching the Walking Dead. the game is clean, fun, have allot of playability, and even shows a little how people really are. i give this game 9/10