Kill la Kill The Game: IF Review - IGN

Kill la Kill The Game: IF looks good, but lacks mechanical depth, narrative nuance, or a breadth of content to match.

[gangsta_red]

What a shame, this series should have been a 2D fighter along the same line as DBFighterZ

[BeginsNightime]

I mean, it really wasn't surprising. Personally, the game looks okay-ish, at least compared to most other arena fighters churned out by Bandai (One's Justice and Xenoverse were alright) but I completely agree that the game will have benefited more if it was a 2d fighter, and the same can be said with other anime fighters. Though, if that One Punch Man game tells us anything, I doubt japanese devs will stop making more arena brawlers.

[gangsta_red]

That's really what I hate about these anime arena fighting games. They look extremely pretty but lack depth. Most of these type of fighting games have this mash button/rock paper scissor like mechanic which I find boring.

[Rachel_Alucard]

They wanted to do 2D but they couldn't because it would overexceed the development budget. Theres an article by IGN from May that goes over the history of it.

[Giraiga13]

Just a reminder that this site gave Jump Force a 6.3, another arena fighter that also lacks narrative nuance and mechanical depth.

[GameBoyColor]

I mean this game is literally an auto battler. I agree that jumpforce was also trash just like all of bamcos reskinned anime brawlers though.

[Rangerman1208]

Would still play this over most other mediocre anime arena fighters like Knights of Britannia.

I'd be surprised if there were people disappointed with the game. What did you expect from a game made by the same people who worked on LWA: Chamber of Time and that Asterisk War vita game? And even, this is probably their best title, and I'm still planning on getting the game, though definitely not right now.

[trooper_]

I don't know, the demo was fun.

[Jman1553]

If you liked it, buy it. Opinions differ.

[yosfoo]

Don't be so dependent on reviews, if you liked the game then go ahead and play it.

Also, i never trust IGN reviews most of the time. They are terrible at gaming.

[TheColbertinator]

Didn't look very deep and the hype for the show is over. Not today.

[theshredded]

Yeah IGN reviews are just trash. Game has a 75 on metacritic. Go download the demo and judge for yourself. It also has Player vs Player.

[Rachel_Alucard]

They only have 2 characters being released post launch and the only content to unlock is from the diorama and gallery items like sound files and music. There's also a lack of any color options and no alt costumes atm. For some reason they wasted resources developing 2 characters that are only playable in the last mission of the story mode. Yet still left the game with a paltry 10 characters including the 2 free ones. The worst part is they've been trying to make this game since 2015, and this is the 3rd attempt at it.

[BeginsNightime]

By 3rd attempt, you mean as APlus Games' attempt on making another anime game? Because if that's the case then I agree with you.

[Rachel_Alucard]

By 3rd attempt I mean this is the 3rd time a Kill la Kill game was attempted to be made. Trigger didn't like the first 2 that was shown to them and they were by different studios.