Recent reviews by Lie

mobile game

too many furries

It's what I thought League would be from the trailers when I was 10!

Brawhalla is *technically* pretty fun. There's no lag (at least as an NA player) and it has ranked 1v1 and 2v2, with a decent roster to boot. Unfortunately it's pretty skin deep and the result is a weird meta generally called the parry meta.

Basically the game has 'sigs' (signature moves) and normals / neutrals. Sigs on right click, neutrals on left. With most weapons you're basically going to be securing 90% of your kills with a sig, and it can be an uncharged or a charged sig. The problem here is most sigs have decent windup and wind-down animations regardless of how much you charge them, but the dodge animation is super small.

The resulting meta is this:

Sit yourself on the same platform as the enemy.
Wait for them to sig (being aggressive isn't worth it usually).
Dodge > Punish, often with an uncharged sig.
Repeat.

The act of waiting > dodging is known as a "parry" in the game and it's just this borefest where at most levels of play being aggressive is a hindrance when it should be rewarding. I'm all for defensive play, but man it can be so frustrating to play against.

I've never been more satisfied with a game. Reflex brings back that old-school arena fps we miss. Heavily inspired by CPMA. Please support these developers and purchase this gem.

This game doesn't teach you anything when you start. The "tutorial" provided is complete crap. Adding to that. The matchmaking system is horrible, placing beginners in games with unforgiving veterans. Adding to that, the community is bad, players will often bash on you if you make a mistake instead of telling you what you did wrong and actually helping.