Some people and media keep asserting "Sparking Zero" as some sort of multiplayer online game that suffers if the player base😼 dwindles a couple months after. They're missing the fact that "Sparking Ze🌳ro" 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 coꦺmplete 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 promotional material for the show, really-.

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

What is with this article, at one po⭕int 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 going 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 sinc🐈e 4, do this as well.

So I'm really happy to see stuff like this happening in games; it emph꧑asizes freedom and player agency more than just a challenge increase.

I guess it's all a 𓄧matter of perspective at the end of the day; it su🍰rely 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.