Early Bird Catches The Bugs – RWBY: Grimm Eclipse Preview

<p>This review is brought to you by Jake Leport of BCO Media&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Instagram&colon;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;jake&lowbar;leport&sol;"><strong> Jake Leport<&sol;strong><&sol;a> Twitter&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;eziopotato"><strong>&commat;EzioPotato<&sol;strong><&sol;a> Facebook&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;BCOMediaArt&sol;"><strong>BCO Media Art<&sol;strong><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>YouTube Channel&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;channel&sol;UC9mLdM6o6DILy3UKPYiq7Kw"><strong>Blade Crusade Official<&sol;strong><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Not long ago&comma; I got an early Christmas present from Rooster Teeth&period; That present being an early access copy of their much anticipated title&comma; <em>RWBY&colon; Grimm Eclipse&comma; <&sol;em>based on their sensational online show&comma; <em>RWBY<&sol;em>&period; It ties in with the law and story of the show&comma; while also sharing some of its mobs and characters&semi; This makes the game enjoyable and very satisfying to play if you are a fan&period; The game takes place somewhere between Volume 2 and 3 of the show&period; It guides the players&comma; playing as members from the team RWBY&comma; through the emerald forest and into Mountain Glenn&comma; where an unknown party has reprogrammed the security network&period; But let’s not talk about that just yet &&num;8212&semi; Spoilers&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game itself is extremely well created&comma; with amazing character models&comma; scenery&comma; and mechanics&period; The Grimm &lpar;Mobs&rpar; are well designed&period; Each features its own individual attacks and ways to counter them&comma; making the game strategic and skill dependent&comma; and allowing for a much more challenging and enjoyable experience&period; The characters are the same&comma; each possessing their own different modes of attack which are based on their weapons and semblance &lpar;Special Ability&rpar;&period; Special attacks are also well created for each of the characters&comma; all harnessing their semblance from the show very well&period; All of them except for Yang&comma; whose semblance is gained strength from attacks&semi; This doesn’t seem to be shown in her special attacks&comma; most likely due to the complexity in creating an attack from this idea&period; This means that her special attacks&comma; unlike the other three&comma; are not using her semblance&period; Nonetheless&comma; her attacks are still awesome and harness her weapons well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure style&equals;"width&colon; 1281px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;gyazo&period;com&sol;903c6e4d191aab0d37d194ec79ab9174&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1281" height&equals;"715" &sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;RWBY&colon; Grimm Eclipse&comma; Rooster Teeth Games&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The storyline is easy to come to grips with if you previously watched the show&comma; but if not you may have trouble at first&period; With enough time and good listening skills&comma; you are more than likely going to get the general idea &&num;8212&semi; Then again&comma; it does have its own wiki page&comma; too&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s clear that a huge amount of storyline planning had been put into this game in order to make sure that it follows the law and order of the show&&num;8217&semi;s story&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Glitches are another thing prominent at this stage in the game&comma; but this is expected for an early access title&period; Examples of this would be sound files and what seems to be a sort of delay in playing them&period; This is especially true with enemies &&num;8212&semi; Even if enemies are being attacked or stunned by the player&comma; their attack sound effects will still play&period; Another glitch is gliding&comma; where your character seems to glide at full speed along the floor without any animations&semi; This specific problem seems to occur mostly with the Weiss character model&period; However&comma; these issues would be rather easy to fix and because of how noticeable they are&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m sure they&&num;8217&semi;ll be addressed in a patch soon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The playable characters are fairly limited at this point &&num;8212&semi; you can only play as team RWBY &&num;8212&semi; but this is&comma; once again&comma; going to be expected of an early access game&period; As the wiki does say&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;More content&comma; such as more playable characters&comma; potentially including Team JNPR&comma; might also be added as downloadable content&period;” meaning that the game could be expanded in the form of expansions&comma; kind of like <em>World of Warcraft<&sol;em>&period; This would be a huge improvement to the game&comma; due to the lack of playable characters and story line at this point&period; Although at the moment&comma; the game does feature four amazing characters from team RWBY&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure style&equals;"width&colon; 1280px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;akamai&period;steamstatic&period;com&sol;steam&sol;apps&sol;418340&sol;ss&lowbar;8fb6b70eda1db666f0501059aa44cad6a0f65c96&period;jpg&quest;t&equals;1448992766" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1280" height&equals;"720" &sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;RWBY&colon; Grimm Eclipse&comma; Rooster Teeth Games&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>This could make things more varied&comma; as a lot of the time you&&num;8217&semi;ll play games with four people playing the same character&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s annoying&comma; but it does allow players freedom rather than being restricted by who they can play&period; However&comma; it just doesn&&num;8217&semi;t feel as real that way&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Another feature that could be great would be a player vs player mode&period; I understand why there isn’t one&comma; but it could be something to think about&period; Sure&comma; the development team only consists of five people&comma; but surely the profit from the early access could help cover the cost of making a PVP system&period; If there was a PVP mode&comma; I would suggest teams vs teams&period; This would be reminiscent of actual show during Volume 3&comma; where teams battle each other to move up ranks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At the time of writing this&comma; the game is selling for £10&period;99 &lpar;&dollar;14&period;99&rpar; on steam&comma; which I believe is way too much at the moment&period; However&comma; there has been speculation that the game will increase in price with its completion in around 6-10 months&period; In other words&comma; if you are interested in the game&comma; get it now&period; The price is going to go up soon&comma; and early access will prevent you from paying much more for the game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In conclusion&comma; <em>RWBY&colon; Grimm Eclipse<&sol;em> is very well created and devised for only having a five man development team&period; The strong story line and mechanics make it worth buying if you are already a fan of<em> RWBY&period;<&sol;em> If you&&num;8217&semi;re not&comma; it is still lots of fun to play and well worth the money &&num;8212&semi; at this point in time&comma; at least&period; But it&&num;8217&semi;s best to get it sooner than later&comma; so you&&num;8217&semi;re not stung with a heftier price upon its full release&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;