Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising Review (Sparky Smitty Boi)
Just to clarify, this is not a rage bait or any of that nonsense.
Feel free to criticize this review or take it with a grain of salt.
This is probably a bad review for most.
TL;DR
Game Devs are not great at balancing and only apply temporary fixes.
Easy to start, hard to master.
No offense to Free Edition players, I sincerely hope you enjoy the game and your time spent!
Edit: Free Edition Players are NOT Derankers. 99% of them are people who are simply trying the game.
On launch the game was pretty good right off the get go, although some characters needed a bit tweaking to help balance out the fights between the roster. The combat system could use a little changes here and there but nonetheless its a perfect game to jump into if you're looking for a first fighting game to enter the genre.
However.
Do not play the Ranked System, its not worth the trouble for how awful the matching system is and people using Free Accounts to simply derank.
Although some are genuinely good players that I got my ass kicked by, mad respect to those.
But, it doesnt help with how busted the new characters upon launch can be.
As of late, ArcSys has been dropping the ball as of late by launching most new characters that are outright BUSTED right off the bat.
IE Beatrix, 2B, and now Versusia.
Beatrix was a perfect embodiment of Gorilla Brain players that could get all the way to Master's without any skill required
if they wanted. Quite literally, a Speed Demon that has a personal vendetta against all laws of physics and the fact in which you the opponent exist.
2B. Despite having a different cooldown system compared to other characters, she has a kit that can outright annihilate you from every possible angle and will punish you every chance there is while you're touching skin or simply admiring the scenery before double jumping and whiff canceling like a fucking crackhead that gained mind reading capabilities.
What definitely doesnt help, is her alternate Super has the ability to give the player a literal free win if they pull it at the end of the round/game. To which, I have to say I find this greatly annoying and definitely do not like this addition.
I'm not going to add Lucilius to the list here because he was at least stuck with a slower cooldown compared to the others and you had to snowball your win (assuming you didnt spam the beyblade fireball and constantly teleport). I have no negative experiences fighting him, and I at least understood the skill required behind playing him.
Versusia.
A Boss Character that was added recently for reasons I have no idea about and wont pretend to know why.
Right off the get go, She is BEEFY as FUCK in both health as well as damage, and has a kit consisting of almost NOTHING but fireballs and positive frame attacks (Exaggerating on the pos. frame attacks).
Every single time, without fail, I would see people use the 236 FB at LEAST 10 times in a game.
Her 236 is instantaneous and tracks you automatically like CIA Satellites on people who found the cure for cancer.
To top all of that off, her attacks can be combo'd hella fast and will drain you of your health as quickly as Nier mains before they got nerfed into oblivion and forced to submit a McDonalds application.
One other thing I think needs to be looked at, would be the excessive use of j.L - M - H attacks and hitbox abusing the living hell out of it.
That's all. Give it a shot and just see if you wanna buy the full game or avoid it like that plague.