Slayblade

Wasted potential, way too short

This game is cute, quirky, and fun... for an hour or two (3-5 runs max). Lots of tropes and pop culture references. This is my experience both from both idly playing for fun and working my way through (so far most of) the Challenge Runs or "Episodes": Positives: - Art style and music never get old (some sound effects could be lowered a bit though) - Blade control itself is smooth (at high levels when your stats are crazy) - Run Modifiers are unique enough to be challenging and fresh without unfairly punishing (DOG -.-) Negatives: - As others have said, battling boils down to Power Up box collection. Unless you push them out of the arena within the first 4ish seconds before it spawns, the fight is basically up to who's build benefits more from the PowerUp. - Keeping that in mind, I'm not sure how much if any balancing was put into the Parts themselves. My "meta" quickly became Catholic Head+Body because they did "Reduce enemy speed by 2x your level" which by level 10 or even 5 was just a 1-Powerup-Oneshot - Auras are nowhere near cohesive enough. Any parts that use "X effect from Y Active Auras" is so niche considering Auras have time limits, unless you want to sacrifice another part slot to get their time doubled on box pickup. - THE AI CONTROL IS SO BAD IT CAUSED ME TO WRITE THIS REVIEW. I'm so serious, after one challenge flopped a few runs I chalked it up to bad luck and did some others. This time, after FOUR BATTLES of both blades just circling around the outer ring, NOT EVEN FIGHTING, I had it. Not only does Your AI seem almost afraid of the Power-Up Box (refer to how stupidly important that is in previous points) it can't even mow the grass decently!! Running into your own bomb? Sure, I get it, its a dome arena with an enemy clashing into you. Running into it FIVE TIMES? It doesn't even matter what the enemy is using, my bot gives up by itself.

I wish I could recommend this game but I just cant, In the future if more content is added I would love to give the game another shot. Currently I have 3 points on the game I would like to say. Lack of parts- In the description of the game It is said that there are 60 blade parts which should mean only 20 parts for each part of your blade which just feels really small when you think about building a blade. speak of building your blade. Building your blade- I think the design of the powercube is pretty cool but when thats the only way you can build your blade it just feels samey and such. I would love if you could build your blade in other ways like activating things on hit without the cube or something like that. I dont know exactly what they should add but I just feel everything relying on powercube just isnt enough. Length of a run- I beat a run in like 20 minutes all it is, is that you wait a few days for the tourney to open and then fight 3 battles and then beat the game. I just feel that this is just way too short for my liking. I like the addition of modifiers and set episodes, but I just feel like there needs to be more base game than just adding modifiers.

it's a pretty baller game but it needs more content like i beat this ♥♥♥♥ in an hour and i have no incentive to jump back in. positive review regardless it's a really cool concept and i love the inspirations around this game, it just needs.. more bro

Non-existent gameplay, awful music and a UI that only barely manages to function.

il gioco è veramente carino, lo consiglio a chi come me è cresciuto con i beyblade. il gioco è piccolino e relativamente breve ma per il prezzo che ha è un bel passatempo, spero venga aggiornato con più mappe in futuro.

只能说喜欢陀螺的买了图一乐还行。 然而对局中时不时的卡顿出屏幕非常影响爽感，还是好好优化吧。 体量方面，我只能说我打通关了还来得及退款。

I really enjoyed the demo of this game and I think it has potential. Trouble is the demo is pretty much the entire game. If you buy the full version you get: - significantly more refined gameplay - a tiny lore drop and a silly cutscene for finishing the finals - a couple more fights in the finals which you couldnt do in the demo - a couple extra parts In its current state I cant recommend it for the price tag. I will say that the full release has the difficulty feel much more balanced as the demo was far too easy and had very obvious broken combos to win everything, however I feel like there needs to be more story to experience and gameplay past beating the big tourney in your town. Why is this one tourney the only one that matters? Whats going on outside your town? Would love to learn more about that perpetual motion slayblade generator the game builds up in it's opening. Overall this game has a great concept as a Custom Robo feeling simple combat game and the different arenas you can fight in do add a lot of interest and replayability. It is unfortunately just a shame that the experience is so short.