Why do you play this game?

[Frogster88]

Legitimate question as an outsider looking in, why do you play this game? What makes it fun? I find myself watching Strive sometimes and concluding "this game is hot garbage and is clearly a downgrade from Xrd," yet other times I think "this game stands on its own and has a well-built system and characters for the system."

 

Personally, I abandoned the game partway through Season 2 partially because of roundstart Gold Burst and partially because of the Large and Very Large counters seeming very prevalent amongst other issues, but I never fully stopped following the game. I want to like it, but something about it just feels... unruly(?), I don't know, to me and I can't pin down what.

 

If anyone could make a case study on why the game is "objectively good" or "objectively bad" or whatever, I'd appreciate it. I'd also like it if we mostly looked at it in isolation, since there's a bunch of things about it that make no sense in context of +R or Xrd.

[whatgoat]

I kind of just pick it up every now and then just because it's a gear-adjacent thing that is popular and some people play. 2.0 definitely feels like the best state the game's been in as a casual dabbler.

I much prefer xrd and +r overall, and outright avoid other "simple" FGs like Granblue VS Rising because they just remind me too much of season 1-2 strive on a metatextual level

[Frogster88]

Makes sense, playing for popularity. Out of curiosity, what "metatextual level"s do you think the "simple" games come across as?