Recent reviews by -ERROR

Good game 10/10

I bought this game during early access state, and had high hopes for it. I like the show, and I was excited to be able to play as my favorite characters and to kill some Grimm. Game looked pretty nice, used characters models basically straight from the show and overall looked like an okay early access game. Still had a lot of stuff to work on, but, hey, it was Early Access, right?

Well, the game is released now and here's the problems that I have with this game in its current state:

• Release was rushed, they introduced a system that supposed to add some replayability to the game (Hunter Ranks), but in the end it's just mindless grind with no reward other than a colored gem and a number.
  
• Characters feel pretty much the same, but they are hardly balanced - some characters are much more potent than the others.
  
• Character's abilities often don't have to do anything with their abilities from the show. For example Weiss' only unique ability is to freeze enemies, and she doesn't have access to any other kind of dust and, she doesn't have any mobility-related abilities.
  
• Skill trees are pretty empty and boring. There's only a couple of viable builds for each characters.
  
• Some character's abilities don't work with each other - for example Weiss' long combo is ineffective against any frozen enemies (not that it's effective without it, but that's a different issue), while pretty much all her skills are related to freezing (see point #3)
  
• All ultimates are the same AoE attack sometimes with some extra effect thrown in instead of unique and diverse abilities.
  
• Being a team game, it does a bad job actually promoting teamwork. XP system rewards you for stealing kills, artifacts and XP orbs, and team attacks are pretty clunky to use and coordinate with others.
  
• This is the big one and is the reason why I'm writing this review. There's a DLC that came up recently, and it seems to me that some of the problems I listed above are fixed for team JNPR - which is added by DLC. It's fair enough, they had more experience designing the new team, so they could work on their mistakes, right? Now it would be logical to expect the titular team (RWBY) to get an overhaul based on responses about team JNPR, to bring them on the same level, right? Nope. Apparently they are not going to do so, based on
  developer's response . Basically if you want full experience you have to buy DLC. And if you want to play a character from RWBY and not JNPR - I guess you're out of luck.