Dissidia Final Fantasy NT (2018)

Picked this up today after seeing it for cheap in order to feed my recent FF addiction. I really should have read the back of the box more closely, because this fighting game just... doesn't support couch co-op? It's kind of crazy to me. Like I was a bit confused by the 3v3 setup the game advertised but I figured my partner and I could at least enjoy some good local multiplayer against the AI or something. It's baffling to be missing this feature in a genre I associate so heavily with local play. Especially when the story doesn't seem much of a focus either, which would otherwise be my plan B.

I'm honestly not sure how much I want to invest time into the game now. I was pumped to see characters from throughout the franchise represented but it just doesn't fill the basic expectations I'd had for it, which I suppose is again my fault in the long run for not reading the box's player count info. Just disappointing is all.

As a huge fan of the PSP games, I figured it a no-brainer to buy the PS4 version, right? I was wrong. The developers apparently went all-in for a PvP & E-sports experience, instead of the single player feel of the PSP games. In order to make battles in PvP balanced, this meant having to reduce the number of HP attacks to one. You can still choose which one, but you can only use one. Since only one HP attack would be monotonous, the battles have been changed from 1v1 to 3v3. For some people, this would solve the HP attack issue, but in my experience it's just a mess. I should probably add that I'm a single player guy and not a multiplayer guy.

The story is basically just cutscenes, there is almost no single player content, so this game was a huge waste of money for me. I see the potential of the game: if only they continued the way the PSP games were, it could have been really really really great. It could have been a great looking Dissidia 012 with better controls and more characters & levels etc.

If you enjoy PvP games though, this could be really fun. As I understand it, there are groups on discord that meet up to battle each other, so there's that.