Bugs Bunny is a projectile and trap character who will ruin your day. He is an irritating bastard, which, as any fighting game player knows, means he is pretty competently designed, if a bit overtuned.Įvery character feels as distinctly designed as Arya and Superman. He has ice breath, which is easy to deal with but can also fuck off on principle. His ability to grab you, and then throw you into the kill-zone at the top of the stage is also infuriating. His ability to grab you while in the air, carry you, and then punch you off-stage, is infuriating. He fills me with rage and I am glad that Krypton was destroyed. He is, in essence, the worst possible character for Arya to go up against aside from a dedicated projectile character. He takes less damage and is heavier than most characters, while having higher overall knockback and lower maneuverability. Superman, for example, is an absolute nightmare to play against. This is not, however, to suggest that Multiversus is lacking in slower characters. Drifting around an opponent’s attack, or delaying your own attack while in the air, are significantly easier in Multiversus than they are in Smash, giving more players the opportunity to make active, interesting decisions with little mechanical investment.Īrya is the kind of character I always wanted to play in Smash, but often struggled to, instead focusing on slower, weightier characters like Terry Bogard. Multiversus, on the other hand, is slightly slower than Smash, characters are floatier, but that floatiness allows for a lot of precision control without the execution requirements of Smash.
Characters like Joker and Lucina only speed things up further, requiring a ton of precision to play well. is, like many fighting games, extremely fast, and requires really strong execution to play properly. She feels like Arya Stark, known child-assassin, should feel.Īrya’s closest Smash contemporaries are Lucina, an extremely fast, combo heavy sword character, and Joker, Persona 5’s terrifyingly quick protagonist, neither of which I played much during my time with the game. These abilities allow Arya a ton of versatility, but require a lot of focus and attention to use properly. Arya’s gameplay is built around three central mechanics, she deals additional damage to enemies when attacking from behind, her throwing knife, which she can teleport to, and her ability to steal an enemy’s face, giving her access to some of their moves and a powerful, but slow, stun. I immediately latched onto Arya Stark, a melee assassin with serious combo potential but who struggles with actually finishing enemies off. While this is due in part to its free-to-play structure, pro-players, most notably SonicFox, believe the game has serious potential as a competitive game. While other platform fighters struggle to break more than a few hundred, at best around 10,000, concurrent players on Steam, Multiversus has consistently been pulling around 50,000 players since it entered open beta last week. The game’s playerbase is evidence of that. Multiversus has all the makings of a real Smash successor, its 2v2 format is a strong gameplay hook, it has a cast of recognizable characters, and, so far, its character movesets are excellent. This has created a bit of a power vacuum, one that has been filled by games like Brawlhalla, Rivals of Aether, and Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, none of which have really managed to recapture not only the magic of Smash, but the consistent player-base.
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The game entered open beta just a few short months after the final patch for Super Smash Bros. However, while the genre’s initial popularity was defined in part by its large rosters of recognizable characters and more casual approach to design and balance, over time it has developed a vibrant competitive landscape-a landscape which more modern takes on the genre look to take ample advantage of. One in which Joker, Persona 5’s protagonist, can shoot Mario Mario (from Super Mario) with a loaded gun, and everyone has to just roll with that. is, for most people, an inherently casual game. series, which focus on knocking your opponent out of an arena as opposed to reducing their health to zero.
Multiversus is a “platform fighter,” which refers to the particular genre of fighting games descended from Nintendo’s ultra-popular Super Smash Bros.
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