Rivals of Aether II

Game is unplayable. Lag and desync out the ass. 1/10 do not recommend. ♥♥♥♥ LUDWIG

Great game! I enjoy the competitive nature of the game, but I waited for the fun for all update to leave a review because NOW there is a reason to actually play the game if you are a casual player. The casual mode is a ton of fun and it's great to get a few games in with friends where you're just screwing each other over on casual stages. As far as competitive goes, I do think there are SOME frustrating balance decisions in the game where some characters are clearly much stronger than others. I think most of the balance could be fixed by just adjusting the over-tuned characters for the most part. However, the game is pretty well-balanced for the most part. The game also has an open workshop beta! I think it's going to be great once they fully integrate it into the game, but at the time of this review it just crashes whenever I try to access it. Overall, I think this game is fantastic, and it has something for everyone!

Server stutter is horrendous. Has only gotten worse and worse as the game has gone on

In many ways, this is probably the best platform fighter ever made, but there's some weird decisions that can make playing it more frustrating than anything. I'm recommending it because I love the devs, the aesthetic, the characters, the music, and the vision. I want to love this game really bad, but as it currently sits I only kind of have fun playing it sometimes.

Just a bad game. Buttonmashslop. No whiff punishing, idiotic character design. Engine is actually pretty good but every move has no lag which is stupid. Dan is pretty incompetent at game design so what can you expect. Rivals 1 is better. Honestly this is just the smash ultimate of the rivals franchise tbh. Gapped by lovers of aether.

Genuinely no reason to play this over Rivals 1. The mechanics are much more like smash, which while a good thing to some, leads to everything feeling alot more slow and monotonous. Grabs and pummels are inconsistant and awkward. You will struggle to hit the right button to block it. Characters have somehow become more obnoxious (I HATE FLEET). And floorhugging completely invalidates alot of characters offences. I would not reccomend this game, if you want a good plat fighter thats like smash, genuinely play Slap City. If you want a shake up on the genre, play Rivals 1 or Animation Versus (When it comes out) or even NASB 2. If you want something that doesnt know what it wants to be, you play this.

CLAIRON FORWARD THROW FORWARD SMASH IS A COMBO AT THE LEDGE AT 80% U CAN GO THE WRONG WAY ON A TECH CHASE AND STILL HAVE TIME TO GO THE OTHER WAY TO CONTINUE THE COMBO ONLY HALF THE CAST HAS DOWN THROW SMASH ATTACK CONFIRMS AT 100+% THIS GAME SHOULD NOT BE AT EVO

I think it's good but I can't tell because Im so bad at the game and it makes me really mad.