RWBY: Grimm Eclipse

Once upon a time in the distant year of 2016 a friend of mine once said "Lets play this together some time. It's a beat-em-up hack and slash kinda game!" Being an arcade man it sounded right up my alley. But alas that day where I played this game with that friend never came. Fast forward to now, I see why he made the decision not to play the game. This might sound extreme but my discontent with this game has reached a point where I look at Token Taker like a teddy bear now. The first thing that'll tip you off that this game was made as a college final project is the fact that there is NO audio settings. Second of all two out the four base game characters have broken animations in their counters making me, for the first time lose all faith in a counter system in what's essentially an Arkham combat game. How they achieved this I have no idea. I have 0 clue how basic things like PREVENTING THE PLAYER FROM FALLING THROUGH THE LEVEL have gone completely ignored by the devs only reinforcing my belief that it wasn't a well funded studio that this but a pimple ridden college kid desperately trying to get a passing grade. Another major technical issue that's glaring with this game is playing it single player. Unless you find three other idiots willing to play with you the game is definitely designed with only multiplayer in mind. You can pause in single player and everything is still ongoing. So I'm not sure if the "better with friends" logic could apply here. Especially because there's a whole section of the skill tree dedicated to JUST multiplayer attacks. This makes your build for a character pretty clear cut but why would you even try to get all characters to level 10? This game is a spit in the face of anything in the beat-em-up hack-n-slash tag. Plain and simple, it plays like a dumpster child of Ninja Gaiden and Dynasty Warriors. Sure I played it on an arcade stick and made the camera purposefully worse for myself in the long run. But I can't imagine having camera control makes it any better. With the level of button mashing asked it was pretty much warranted. Play Streets of Rage, play Fight'n Rage, hell you'll get better gameplay out of Nekopara, play anything but this steaming pile of garbage.