The King of Fighters ALLSTAR

Great job here! I really can’t find anything wrong with this game at all so far; but I’m sure some things could be improved. Love beat em ups and love KoF and this is a beautiful mashup. The animations are super clean, the music and sound effects also really add an arcade experience feel to this game as well. The only issues I have encountered so far are live PvP matches lagging a bit; but I’m playing on an iPhone 6s so I’m DEFINITELY NOT running optimal hardware plus I am playing on the highest resolutions/graphic options available to me so I’m honestly not surprised I get some lag! I’m still new to the game so I have plenty of quests to complete for free gems (or rubies? Idk what the premium currency is called) so I can’t really talk about the long term; but the summon system seems decent enough so far although I wish there were pools for separate years to avoid pulling 3 different versions of goro but that is just my own personal preference. The game is very generous with new players; allowing a FREE re-rollable 10x summon until you are happy with your free 5 star. Awesome game and I’m super excited to see where it goes.

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It is very upsetting that I lost a lot of money and more than 10,000 rubies in summoning expecting that I will get Iori Orochi or Leona. But none of them showed up. Just a bunch of unwanted fighters showed up and I did not want them since most of them I already had. At the end I got frustrated and deleted the game from my phone since I lost my money and lost all my rubies. I have nothing to play the game with. I liked the game a lot when I downloaded it but now what I see that it is another form of gambling where you actually win nothing. Players should have the choice to get whatever fighters they want using their money/ruby. If we take a chance, it’s a gamble. I wasted so much time and effort to gather all these rubies and I wasted them in 2 mins. I did not get what I want. I am frustrated and annoyed and regretting why I played the game putting my a lot of time and effort. I should get something from the game because I deserve that. Instead, I got frustration and regret. They should remove the chance up system. It will make people to hate this game like I do now. I don’t want to put my money and time on a game where I might not win anything. I don’t want my family and friends to lose their money and time on a gamble like game and earn nothing but frustration and waste their valuable time. If I work on something, I should get something.

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To stay even remotely competitive, you need to grind and spend all the time. The price of rubies (in-game currency) is absurd. Sure you get a guaranteed top tier unit after enough summons (random chance draws of characters) but that’s after spending hundreds of dollars’ worth of rubies. Never play this game if you won’t be able to charge it soon, as your battery will drop precipitously, even on the lowest graphics settings. The gameplay itself is alright, but gets repetitive. It’s a side scroller beat-em-up with good graphics but sloppy controls. There have been numerous times where the virtual joystick wouldn’t let me move at crucial moments. The move priority is broken (in fighting games, that is where if two characters attack each other, which one causes damage). You can attack and have your opponent shrug it off, walk around, and attack through your attacks if they outlevel you. This eliminates the ability to use skill and emphasizes stat checks over player ability. There are several great ports of KOF on here, some are free. Play this if you want, but keep in mind some places can’t be beaten without top tier characters which are expensive to obtain. Also keep in mind this game is very... very... time demanding if you want to finish daily quests and keep a moderate pace.

It would be better if it were a proper Switch game card and not another predatory gacha assault, but this is where the money is now and I guess that the medium of video games might as well end in a profitable implosion if it must end at all. Anyway, the real problem so far is how they handled the ending of the Tekken crossover. They scheduled maintenance for a couple of hours on the last day of the collab, by every time I logged in, they extended the maintenance to either some time hours and hours down the line or “TBD”. As I write this, the maintenance seems to have gone about twenty hours over schedule, and wasted the final day of the collab. So unless they’re extending it another day, I would say that Netmarble have learned nothing from past mistakes, and that tells me that they are incapable of learning, so I would not expect to invest a ton more time, money, or emotion in something I have such dwindling faith they’re even capable of handling properly.

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I want to love this game, i really do, but the tournament and the time trials are filled with hackers and exploiters. You may say that “oh, just get gud, and stop whining”, but when the hackers in time trials are being given premium currency (currency that is used for the gatcha and can be bought with cash) daily as well as filling the top ranks, in a game that was originally about fair competition and skill, one tends to get salty. The tournament is even worse, becase there the hackers can use their ill-gotten gains to have more chances to roll for higher tier characters, and also can exploit lag with said stronger characters, and earn even more premium currency, thus causing a snowball effect where the hacker always wins. Netmarble isn’t doing anything because this loop is only causing players to get salty, and then spend cash in order to roll for the top tier characters, thus benefiting them. I hear the jp server isn’t much better either. TL;DR if you are gonna get this, best not to play it seriously. Not that anyone is going to read this because of netmarble’s shills.