Recent reviews by HardInDaPaint

The most fun I've had in a long time

This game is fun, if you have friends to play with you will have a lot of fun, or if you like something better than the For Glory on sm4sh then this game is great.

The characters and the gameplay: each character has two weapons each, at the start of a match every character will start without a weapon, in this form you have aerial attacks, a recovery move, a few jumps until you have to land, heavy attacks, etc. However, the place of differentiation betweem the characters comes from their weapons, the weapons have very similar move inputs however react very differently, for instance, just because two characters have an axe, doesn't mean that their forward heavy attack (or smash attack) will have the same animation or hitbox (start-up frames, etc.)
The best way to describe the gameplay itself is fast, it only takes a few heavy attacks on you to get you to kill damage (varies by defensive stat), some combos are quite easy to pull off once you are famliar with a characters moveset you may find one yourself mid match. The differences between this game and smash bros. are that it has no grab input (it does have grapples on some characters, just depends on the move, but not every character has a grab unlike smash bros. where every character does) and there is no shield button, there is a dodge, which can be combined into a directional input to gain momentum, or move out of an area, you can also use this method in the air, this will not cause you to go into freefall (if you don't touch the ground you are dead). There is also the differences in recovery, this game you have an up heavy input in the air (aka a recovery move) and three jumps and a dodge mid air (or multiple, this is on a timer) before you must touch the ground or wall slide (since there is no ledges, similar to Rivals of Aether), wall sliding resets your jumps and recovery move.

There are a lot of settings to mess around with and the gameplay is really fun and exiciting, practise also feels really rewarding when you land a combo on an opponent after many attempts.

The characters do lack personality (although this game doesn't really need that, I just thought I should include it anyways.)

Since this game is free I would highly reccomend at least trying it for 1/2 hour or so to get a feel for it, that is if you like Smash Bros. or Rivals of Aether.

Despite this game being released 2 1/2 years ago it still manages to have at least 10 bugs everytime I play/every life, for instance, I was playing the necromancer class and I was in a crypt, now the Necromancer can spawn minions out of corpses but AI for them is so ♥♥♥♥ they get caught (also i couldnt spawn minions in the crypt for some reason) on every single wall and i even have a minion (a thing you get from using special currency) but it wouldnt even teleport to my aid like it was supposed to. Therefore i lose all of my stuff from that run, all of my stat boosts and relics, the worst part about it wasn't the fact that I lost that run, it was the fact that I died to something I could not control and it was due to poor game design, honestly how hard is it to make a game that uses AI on the NPCs but not for your minions as a necromancer.

This game is good, but its also utter trash, I like some classes and sometimes it isn't as buggy or the bugs aren't game breaking, however, with the amount of bugs this game has I can't reccomend this to anyone, its a fun time waster, but I don't believe these lazy devs deserve anymore money if they refuse to fix this game (they constantly say in patch notes that they bug fix, but they clearly don't have a beta/alpha tester for each patch).

Also why the hell aren't all characters unlocked for a game that you PAY for, it has almost half of the characters behind a pay wall, which just annoys me, if you want these characters you have to fork over another $5 or something, its like if overwatch had every 3 characters behind a pay wall, it would just piss everyone off.

tl;dr: Fun but too buggy and broken to reccomend, devs fix this game, it has incredible potential just please don't make a lot of this content behind a pay wall (first you should probably fix this mess).

great game fun to play for bits at a time