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Do you like playing a game for hours upon hours and forgetting what time it is? How about thinking you've "mastered" a game, only to realize you got played by the game? Maybe you want something you'll just enjoy for a few weeks waiting for a main release, only to find out you missed the release date by a few weeks because you were trying "Just one more thing" on your colony? Oh, and maybe you want a game with near infinite replayability due to mods and user content that can easily multiply the amount of content available?

If you think that any of these are good, then DON'T get this game. Because if you do, it WILL happen and you WILL lose track of your life. But if that's OK to you, then go nuts. My time played says 838 hours right now, but let's be real, I'm still new. Only about 1000 hours to go until I might have gotten decent at it. But probably not.

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I want to preface this review with a tag that I am only recommending (Thumbs up) this game based on the fanboy that I am, in hopes that it improves beyond what it was a few months ago in the Ruby only game. If it continues at that growth, I believe it will be an excellent game in about a year's time.

That said, I understand that my love of the show can potentially blind me to features and things I don't see, but as such, I am being as fair as I can with that said in my critique of the game. I do not need the comments pointing such things out. I understand that it goes against the "Fair review" idea, but being an adamant fan of the show, it can be difficult to be 100% unbiased.

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On Day 1, I'm writing my first impressions for this game, as I'm a huge RWBY fanboy and love the series and what it's all about. That in mind, please read this review knowing that despite my fandom, I will criticize where necessary with regards to what I see. This is early access, and this is still day 1 only.

Gameplay revolves around a specific character (Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long) and their specific movesets. Each controls a little differently, but it boils down to this: You have one button that is your melee based attack, one button that is a ranged based attack, and you can string combos by spamming the primary button over and over until satisfied. Or you can feel frisky and push your secondary button while in the middle of a combo to "Finish" the combo with a ranged attack and drop out of it. You have a "Dodge" button with your shift key. Finally, as far as movesets go, you have 3 special moves, unique to each character that defines them. Some have ranged projectiles, some have area of effect wave clear sets. You have to try them to see what they do, and once you do, you'll find out that your melee basic attack ends up doing better than the specials in 95% of circumstances.

You gain experience from killing monsters, collecting items, and completing objectives. As you level, you'll unlock very basic things like extra special attacks, improved specials, and the like. The specials can be improved by either gaining the ability to charge them to do more damage, getting a new effect, or other traits. Other unlocks can be your aura (Health) recharging faster or... That's about it right now. And since we're on that topic - You have health. You won't realize this because you'll stun-lock all enemies you come across with melee or ranged attacks, but if there's more than 5-6 of them on you, you'll go from full to death in a matter of seconds. The balance of health is already an issue, as your characters (All four of them) are nimble enough to dodge a little bit to get out of harm's way, but if you get surrounded, you might as well kiss your butt goodbye.

Balance issues aside with health, the game play is fun for a few minutes - The characters all have unique personalities and voice lines, and from what I can tell, are all the original voice actors. You also have Peter Port (A teacher from the academy in the show) guiding your steps through the levels to help you out and aid you. However, the game play is extremely basic. There's only three buttons you'll care about while in combat - Melee about 90% of the time, ranged attack about 5% of the time, and your dodge about 5% of the time. Beyond that, specials are only when you feel frisky or are trying to solo things and want to speed it up (I've played solo on every character and felt no worry of getting overrun until the end of the first chapter at the wave clear section).

Is this game good? Honestly, not yet. Yet being that key word. There's a lot of room for improvement, as this is still day one of an early access title. Should you get it now? Ehhhh, questionable. Someone has to be a lab rat. Which lab rats should it be? Hardcore RWBY fans will adore the voice actors and the visuals, which look like they were made for the show and put into a game. Every character sounds and feels like they would in a real combat fight, and the animations are absolutely stunning. The game play is severely lacking currently, and the story is... Non-existent to be fair.

I won't give you a rating yet, but I would say if you're a RWBY fan, this is a game to pick up, if only for the sheer amounts of fanboy that will happen. If you're not a fan, I would stray away for now - The game is very unfinished, but in the future may be much better. Anything can happen.

As a RWBY fan, I recommend this, but don't for anyone that isn't (At the time of this review).

TL:DR

Pros:
+ RWBY cast voice actors.
+ Awesome sound and animations that look like they should.
+ Visuals are spot-on for the world of Remnant.

Cons:
- Extremely basic combat and no complexity
- Grows boring quickly due to low mechanical necessity.
- Unfinished (Early access)
- No customization

Sound 9.5/10, Graphics 9/10, Gameplay 2/10, recommended to (hardcore) fans *only* in current state.

I've played quite a bit of this so far, and found that even in an early-access state, it has a huge, promising vision. You can see the Terraria roots, and all the faults that plagued the early days of Terraria are visibley gone from this. The developers took a lot of the feedback from both it and Minecraft, and tweaked this alpha release to include a lot of depth at this early stage. As the development goes on, and eventually into release, expect a huge, sprawling game with no end in sight!

Squad based shooter combined with tactical simulation combined with Borderlands-esque leveling up. Mix that in with three idiots you call "friends," and Payday turns from being a parody of the awesome movie Heat to a hilarious high-calibur (Pun intended) version of Super Troopers and Loaded Weapon. Minus the laughs, with more swearing at each other.

All in all, a satisfying timesink alone, but a hilarious way to break friendships.