Pocket Rumble

Good game. But it's early access vaporware. Don't reward the devs for making early access vaporware.

Early Access since 2017. By the way, this was kickstarted.

Still early, very early. Only two playable fighters, but two button controls make this easy to learn, hard to master. Retro sound a style are also awesome. I never knew I was nostalgic for Wonder Swan and Neo Geo Pocket Color games. One of the only fighters I can play online and not get super salty. I played the same guy in ranked, and he mostly beat the tar out of me, for about 30 minutes but I still had tons of fun. 7/10 at current state, but I'm sure it'll get better with more fighers, which will happen about one and month according to the devs.

I bought this game about a year ago when Rising Thunder was shut down, but didn't play it then because lack of players and contet. I started really getting into it 2 months ago when all of the characters and single player content became playable and I have been really enjoying it. Pros +Great gameplay +Diverse roster +GGPO netcode (works well up to 250ms of ping with one frame of GGPO delay added) Neutral(for me they are positives but some players might not like them) * Simplified inputs * Input buffering, so combo timing is easier Negatives -Lack of players when it is day in EU, but at night and evening you can get matches quite easily

Its too bad they never finished this. It had so much potential. But without any difficulty adjustment its just not accessible.

If they didn't abandon this It would've been one of my favorite games It's just...unfinished...

So I actually really like Pocket Rumble as a concept for a game. Everything as the game stands feels responsive and it's actually really fun to lab certain combos out with characters like Hector and Quinn. If you're looking for a very technical review however, I'm not much of a fighting game player, this review is mainly about the lack of anything about this game information or news wise. So I looked up where the last updates for this game could be found, and the last update (IE any information about this game) was found on @CSdoesCS on Twitter. The last time Pocket Fighter was mentioned was on Feb 27, 2021, and judging from the infrequent updates I think this man has either moved on or just doesn't have the manpower to make the changes he wants to the game. This is not an insult to the developer, even I wouldn't blame him if he moved on from this game in the state of it currently. All this to say, Pocket Rumble is probably not going to get the revival most people are looking for unfortunately, the game is most likely just dead in early access period.