Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game

“The story mode feels very unpolished.”

“The story mode is genuinely scuffed to a disappointing amount, there's no noticeable issues at first besides needing to level up characters to be able to use special moves and such at first but later in the story once you get to what are supposed to be the 'boss' fights they are horribly scuffed to the point they have no proper mechanics and need to be cheesed because of the damage they do and how tanky they are or just spam the same move the entire fight until you're dead.”

“The story mode has no difficulty options, with myself being decimated by the AI before I could land a couple hits.”

“Zero graphical settings: the PC/Steam version features no graphics options menu.”

“Some characters have flat out unfinished animations, combo trials don't work, there's graphical bugs on Intel drivers, there's no ranked, multi-person lobbies, or spectating, and there's no graphics options to drop the resolution/play windowed/borderless, or anything like that.”

“No graphics settings, made worse by how weirdly unoptimized the full release is whereas I had no issues during the beta (also wants 4GB VRAM as a minimum despite being your usual 2D fighter [as an example, that's more than what GG Strive, a game with high quality 3D visuals, asks for]).”

“The soundtrack is so mid... which is an absolute crime for this franchise... it's trying to imitate the original, but it fails terribly... just reuse the show's soundtrack, instead of giving us this wishy-washy attempt at a recreation...”

“Combat is clunky and AI too aggressive and spammy, music is rushed.”

“I've played for an hour and a half and the music feels too repetitive already.”

“Buggy necessary features such as replays or combo trials, no ranked matches.”

“If you want to do combo trials, to have an easier time in story mode, or are invested in wanting to play Avatar Aang or Nightmare Korra, wait for some patches cause these are all unfinished or buggy. The game needed some more time in the oven to be feature complete (Ozai is just missing some visuals, he's pretty polished from what I've seen otherwise).”

“A quarter of the playable character roster is completely unfinished, basic features such as online lobbies for more than 2 people are not present, several things in the tutorials and combo trials are buggy or outright broken (look at the 'demo' replay for Sokka's final intermediate trial lmao).”

“The combos getting reset while doing them and grinding for all achievements was just a pain.”

“First person ever to obtain the 'absolute balance' achievement, more than difficult, everything was a lot of grinding (I recommend farming any of the chapter 3 levels if you're going for the achievement).”

“Every design decision—from the tutorials and less than barebones training mode to the combo trials to the inability to customize controls to characters' kits built around requiring literal one-frame (1/60th of a second) execution—culminates in a game that instead of bothering to teach you, it operates under the assumption you are one of the handful who've already been grinding it for months to years.”

“Good fighting game, terrible optimization.”

“Where are the game's graphics and performance settings? This game lags a lot in fullscreen mode (my PC is good enough to run all the other fighting games out right now) and I'm tired of going to game files to change any settings or figure out what might be causing it; it's ridiculous.”

“Just played Marvel Tokon beta, that game is unoptimized hogwash garbage that almost killed my computer and my friend's computers as well.”

“Feels like a cash grab due to the hype surrounding the new movie, which sucks because I was really excited for this game's release.”

“Game was clearly just rushed as yet another cash grab.”

“It's not just a cash grab like most show-based games; it's actually a good fighting game with mostly balanced characters, although I do wish we had more characters and not locked behind a deluxe edition paywall.”

“Mechanically, it is an interesting pastiche of a lot of other modern fighters and they've clearly tried to cater to a lot of different styles with the characters (e.g., you've got pretty traditional shotos, but you've also got triangle jump stuff with Ozai, some very technical movement characters, etc.), but it lacks a ranked mode and, though I appreciate how faithfully they recreated the character designs, the animations look awful.”

“Unfortunately, it was rushed to market so it's in sort of an unfinished state, but what's there is a rock-solid fighting engine, creative character designs (even the more basic characters still have interesting twists on their classic archetypes), and tons of love for the source material.”

“I tried my best not to refund, but aside from a basic arcade mode, casual 1v1 online with no ranked mode and no spectating, with only 2-player lobbies, and a barebones, boring story mode for Avatar, there's nothing of value in this game aside from the Avatar name.”

“Broken features, audio glitches, very boring story content, and no ranked mode for competitive players make this a miss at release.”

“The story is short and quite easy, with no real replay value once complete.”

“I'll probably pick it up on sale once they add more playable characters.”