Ganbare! Super Strikers
- January 10, 2018
- rese
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Reviews
- Ganbare! offers a fun and accessible blend of tactical RPG mechanics with soccer, making it easy to pick up and play.
- The game features charming graphics and character designs, capturing the spirit of sports anime and providing a nostalgic experience for fans.
- The core gameplay is engaging, with a variety of strategies to explore and a satisfying progression system for character abilities.
- The AI is overly simplistic and can be easily exploited, leading to a lack of challenge even on higher difficulty settings.
- The game is relatively short, with many players feeling it lacks depth and content, leaving them wanting more after completion.
- There are several bugs and UI issues that can disrupt gameplay, including crashes and a cumbersome menu system that makes navigation tedious.
- gameplay15 mentions
- 47 % positive mentions
- 33 % neutral mentions
- 20 % negative mentions
The gameplay is characterized by its fun and engaging turn-based tactical mechanics, blending football with RPG elements that allow for strategic positioning and skill development. While the game is relatively small in content, it offers simple yet intuitive mechanics that cater to both casual and experienced players, making it accessible and enjoyable for various play styles. Overall, it successfully captures the spirit of classic sports games while providing a fresh take on the genre.
“A turn-based, tactical soccer game with simple mechanics that make it easy to pick up and play.”
“Ganbare's turn-based tactics gameplay is perfect for prolonged play sessions or short bursts.”
“The actual gameplay can be pretty fun, especially considering how to best position your players, and the RPG aspects are pretty interesting.”
“Admittedly, Ganbare doesn't hold a candle to Inazuma Eleven, but the clear inspiration and tactical gameplay hooked me anyway.”
“It features XCOM-like turn-based gameplay, where you have a limited amount of actions per character that you can use to move, tackle, pass, shoot, and do other things that are common in football.”
“Simple mechanics of placement and roll-your-stat-versus-their-stat check to see who gains the advantage.”
- story10 mentions
- 30 % positive mentions
- 40 % neutral mentions
- 30 % negative mentions
The game's story is generally considered short and underdeveloped, with most players completing it in about 5 to 20 hours. While some appreciate the anime-style presentation and the detail in player and team development, others find the storyline to be a secondary focus, often overshadowed by other game modes. Overall, the narrative aspect is seen as fun but lacking depth and length.
“I really enjoy the detail and variety that has gone into each of the players and teams, and I like the anime-style story and progress of your teams and players.”
“The story mode is clearly meant to be the main focus of this game but I was more interested in checking out the tournament and league modes.”
“Still great fun and only about 5 hours long if you only go for story mode.”
“The story is bare; abilities need balance tweaks, there are some audio issues, and the overall game is on the shorter side.”
“The story mode is clearly meant to be the main focus of this game, but I was more interested in checking out the tournament and league modes.”
“The story is neglectable.”
- graphics5 mentions
- 40 % positive mentions
- 20 % neutral mentions
- 40 % negative mentions
The graphics are praised for their friendly and visually appealing art style, blending retro aesthetics with modern polish. While the overall design is tactically competent and charming, some users noted a lack of variety in the visual representation of status effects.
“Tactically very competent, and has a great art style.”
“+ lovely graphics with a mix of retro aesthetic and modern polish”
“The graphics are friendly and easy on the eyes while providing a cute flair to the game.”
“The status effects are not versatile enough; frozen, asleep, and stunned are basically the same thing, just with different visuals.”
- music3 mentions
- 67 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 33 % negative mentions
The music in the game features a good soundtrack, though some users noted issues with looping that can become grating over time. Overall, while there are minor criticisms, the music is generally well-received.
“The soundtrack is really good.”
“The music adds a great atmosphere to the game.”
“Some of the music doesn't quite loop properly and it became a bit grating for me, but that's pretty nitpicky.”
- grinding2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
Players find the grinding aspect tedious, particularly due to the cumbersome menu system that complicates tracking skill progression and the multi-action movement reminiscent of XCOM, which can lead to a repetitive experience.
“The menu makes it a bit tedious to keep an overview of what skills each player has learned.”
“You move each person on your team in a multi-action system like what XCOM uses, and it gets tedious very fast.”
- stability2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The game exhibits stability issues, particularly with crashes occurring when the special ability menu is accessed repeatedly during a match, as well as freezing when multiple debuffs are applied to opponents. These bugs significantly impact the overall gameplay experience.
“I encountered a crash that seems to happen if you open the special ability menu too many times during a match, which freezes the game and then crashes.”
“There's an annoying bug that freezes the game whenever you apply multiple debuffs to your opponent.”
- optimization2 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The game is praised for its optimized performance and stability, with users reporting minimal bugs that are addressed promptly.
“+ Optimized performance and a very stable client with hardly any bugs (which get fixed quickly)”
