Chroma Squad

You'll be figting the same squirrel minions over and over and over. The bosses themselves are the only thing that provide the slightest hint of variety. Then there's the Mech fights which there are FAR too many of. And the Mech fights themselves all repeat the exact same fighting pattern. I got tired of it immediately. The game overall is not well balanced. There is no option to grind so you can easily get yourself into an unwinnable state if you don't distribute your ressources well. Which was the case for me , i neglected my Mech to the point where i had to start the whole game from the beginning. I got farther on my second run but eventually i simply got too bored to keep on going. You're not exactly dealing with Xcom levels of strategy here. Hit enemies, heal, rinse, repeat, fall asleep. Presentation and basic idea are fine, has a lot of nerdy humor. For example dealing with angry fan letters gave me a couple of chuckles admittedly. But the core game mechanic is too monotonous and bland to keep you motivated.

So far I am half-way through season 2 and I can say without a doubt that this was worth every cent! Chroma Squad is a fantastic turn-based rpg with plenty of goofy references and fun game mechanics. The only thing I don't like is that the soundtrack isn't that diverse so a lot of tracks are repeated and start to get old after a while.

If you're looking to meet the Director's instructions for each episode, be ready to restart them over and over and over again. Enemies often dodge attacks you've assigned two or more cast members to execute and the episodes have multiple parts, which means even if you beat the first half, you'll likely have to redo that if you fail to meet later goals. I'd likely bump the game up to 4 starts if the dodging was fixed or at the very least an introductions of a mid-episode restart point. As it stands, it's a cute idea with unfortunately frustrating execution.

So far I've only gotten past the first season but the game has been pretty engaging. There are some funny pop culture references and the combat is smart as well. It feels like I'm playing xcom with power rangers mixed with a company sim. Oh yeah, and Michonne is the yellow ranger XD. Little to no regrets buying this game :)

My biggest problem with the game is easily the writing, which is hard to go into any large details without major spoilers. The biggest problem for me with this would have to be the game's humor, although not nearly as annoying or obvious as Borderlands 2, it's still annoying to have to fight a giant duck with muscular arms talking about how science hasn't gone far enough. There's an obvious, however major, plot twist near the end of the game that made it much harder for me to enjoy the plot, as it isn't nearly as fun as it was before said twist. Another problem I had with the writing is how despite being a TV show, the characters are almost never in character. It's hand waved in that they do post editing, but there's still no option to at least see it. The combat is okay for me, it's simple yet fun, however on the normal difficulty the game is almost insultingly easy, with hard mode being completely unfair. The game advertises the acrobatics as a major feature, although I only ever used it to get my characters into the fight faster, at least the team attacks are much bigger, with me using them whenever I could. The game itself, despite advertising itself as an RPG, barely has any RPG elements. One of them being able to chose which skill each character has (which can be switched in between levels) where you can chose which ability each character gets, most of them either do very little, or are outfight harmful, worst case being the medic's skill that makes all healing skills do damage instead. One more thing, I know this has been probably patched out by now, but the game locked up for me twice on the final level, I never bothered to check if it really was patched or not because I don't want to do the level again, and have it lock up once again.