Because this is not a good game This is poorly balanced, unpolished dreck. So playing Bleeding Edge, and seeing the Ninja Theory logo at the start is so disorientating. Hell, I was even one of the few people who liked DMC. Well, I’m sorry, But I’m not that bored and I’m not that desperate.īleeding Edge was made by Ninja Theory, and that makes this all so much worse. It feels like it was just rushed early because they realised everyone would be bored and desperate while trapped indoors. Like a Vanilla Ice concert, it’s all style and no substance. This is what’s apparently considered a finished product. This is a full-fledged, full-priced release. Early access games have room to grow, they have time to take on community feedback. And if it was, I would pretty be forgiving for almost all of it’s faults. The unpolished gameplay and lack of content make Bleeding Edge feel like an early access title. Then there’s the fact I couldn’t enter the workshop menu without one of the characters T-posing on me trying to assert dominance as if their life depended on it. Hell, one of the shooters is the games token healer, and you can’t use him because he handles like dog dookie. This makes it impossible for those characters to be playable. All the ranged characters feel weightless and floaty when they try to aim. The game is in no rush, and so neither should you be apparently. When you run, you feel like you’re sprinting in place. When you ride your board you feel like you’re moving at a glacier’s pace. and then there’s the fact that movement felt so slow that not even hover-boards could save it. The number of times I felt like I was slipping and sliding around trying to hit something was immeasurable. To top it off, some characters control like a shopping trolley at an ice rink. There is nothing here to keep me playing or make me care. There are not enough game modes, there are not enough maps, there are not enough skins, there’s not enough emotes. There are only two kinds of game modes, which as mentioned above, wear out their welcome fast. ![]() ![]() Outside of DLC, the skins are literally just re-colours, like some shitty palette swap from Street Fighter. Characters only have 3 emotes each on average. I get the need for such a punishment, I really do, but the whole situation had me feeling trapped.Īnd let’s not get started on the fact this entire game feels unpolished and rushed. It felt like the game was holding me hostage the entire time, gun to my temple, threatening me with the hose if I don’t collect the power cells like a good little girl. The game warns you that if you leave, you will be marked as a leaver, and placed in matches with other fellow leavers. The only reason I didn’t join the leavers and also bail mid-match was because of the potential penalty. In fact, directionless is the perfect way to describe most of the experience. And it kind of leaves the world feeling a little directionless. It feels like someone just thought up a cool name and worked backwards from there. I couldn’t even figure out what the ‘Bleeding Edge’ was supposed to be. Which is strange, because, from the trailers, it looks like someone put a lot of effort into building a narrative. Aside from a few scraps of the story here and there in the bios, its all very devoid of story information. There’s not much else to the world-building outside of this though. The music, with its low bass and electronic twang, helps cultivate the futuristic feel of the setting. As a metalhead weeb, I was particularly fond of Nidhoggr and Daemon, the cybergoth and spray paint samurai respectively. And while character designs may be different takes on racial stereotypes, at least they look like they belong in a dystopian future. This Cyber anarchist punk feel the environments and menus have is a style that I can really dig. Character designs feel like the love child of Cyberpunk and League of Legends. The art direction and music in this game is genuinely good. Before I jump into the dissection of how this game is bad, I want to start with some positivity.
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