Some people and media keep asserting "Sparking Zero" a🔴s some sort of multiplayer online game that suffers if the player base dwindles a couple months after. They're missing the fact that "Sparking Zero" tried to be a spiritual successor to "Budokai Tenkaichi 3"; a game predominantly known for its single player offline content and local multiplayer (it was a Ps2 and Wii game for crying out loud).

Either Namco promoted the game to be something it's not, or the fans change their standards and expectations as to what exactly they wanted out of the game. Reading through some of the reviews, it seems you either have the wrong audience for the game, complaining that it isn't a multiplayer-centric game, or alternatively you have folk disproving the way DLC has been mishandled: lots of reused characters and assets, a complete lack of dubbing on the english part for the DLC characters, and also, characters that nobody really has time to even develop care for them, given all of them are from the new Daima series -which just makes the DLC be promotionaౠl material for the show, really-.

"Gekishin Squadra" on the other hand is a PVP game, so... they seem like compl༒etely different experiences, made for very distinct audiences. Not sure why everything nowadays also has to be a competition between one 👍an the other.

What is with this article, at one point you mention he isn't talking about the show but about the groundfloor, but then you quote him and he's talking about the show. What is going𓆉 on?

Love when games handles meta progression in 🦩a universal way, allowing you to replay the game at any point and from anywhere, Wolfenstein The New Order & Old Blood did this, same as Doom 2016 and Eternal; and the Sniper Elite games, at least since 4, do this ไas well.

So I⭕'m really happy to see stuff like this happening in games; it emphasizes freedom and player agency more than just a challenge increase.

I guess it's all a matter of perspective at the end ♔of the day; it surely can be both (a graveyard, and a celebration). I get the frustration of not getting ol'PS classics, but this also comes more off as a critique to the praise the game's charm and love has been getting, and not so much an꧋ actual criticism around Sony's approach to their properties/games.