Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Conflict is attention-grabbing in the way it permits you to effortlessly do cool issues. In the event you’re solely searching for an area fighter the place you’ll be able to simply mash buttons and beat up on bizarre spirits, this recreation may have you coated for a short time. Even then, although, little nuisances will hold popping up all through your play time. The characters all kinda look the identical. The enemies aren’t all that difficult. Your companions get in your method as a substitute of serving to you. In the event you actually love the anime and simply wish to brainlessly smack issues you then’ll take pleasure in this to an extent. In the event you’re searching for something greater than that, you’ll wish to look elsewhere.
Having solely watched a couple of episodes of the anime, I seemed ahead to enjoying by its wild battles by the sport’s Story Mode. Whereas I did combat some attention-grabbing spirits whereas enjoying this mode, most of my time was spent studying. The sport lays out many of the storyline by textual content and nonetheless pictures, solely stopping for a battle each couple of minutes. In the event you’ve seen the anime, I really feel like these recaps could be extremely uninteresting as you waited for one thing to occur. In the event you haven’t, you’re ALSO going to seek out these a uninteresting, lifeless model of a narrative that’s much better when it doesn’t really feel prefer it’s being relayed second hand. I felt like I used to be simply studying an episode breakdown on Wikipedia. It tells the story, however so in-brief that I can’t see it interesting to any viewers.
Whereas being temporary, Story Mode nonetheless manages to be tedious in Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Conflict simply due to how lengthy it rambles on for. You play by small snippets of the story in particular person missions, however most of those simply encompass textual content partitions for a bit that finish with a combat. A few of them are JUST the textual content partitions. And provided that it’s not doing the story any favors, it simply seems like the sport is losing your time for a lot of the time you spend in Story Mode. Fortunately you’ll be able to simply skip the story in the event you’re bored with studying by all these things.
Issues get marginally higher if you lastly get to combat one thing. The sport is pretty fundamental with its fight. Sq., Triangle, and Circle all allow you to slap your foes round with totally different assaults, and holding down whereas hitting these buttons adjustments the assault. Nevertheless, in Story Mode, you’re simply going to wish to hit Sq. on a regular basis. Mashing Sq. results in a combo that ends with a Cursed Vitality Approach (a Tremendous, principally, and the place all your injury will come from). There may be actually no draw back to hammering this button the whole time you play this mode.
You CAN attempt to put collectively one thing fancier in Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Conflict, however the janky motion and fight make it laborious to make that stuff work. I’ve tried to place the opposite strikes into apply, enjoying round with totally different strings or making use of the Cursed Vitality stage (principally a Tremendous bar, besides it fees absurdly quick because it’s essential to do precise injury) in additional intricate methods, however it seems like enemies are at all times proper on high of you or flitting round someplace distant (and are flinging projectiles). Your finest wager is to at all times be of their face launching your quickest assault, which implies you’re mashing sq..
So sure, it is advisable to land a Cursed Vitality Approach to do any injury. Common strikes don’t harm your enemies. So, having an auto-combo that leads into these methods is kinda essential. The rest feels such as you’re needlessly overcomplicating your life as a result of you need to discover some place so as to add a kind of Cursed Vitality Strategies your self by hitting R1. In the event you get fancy along with your combo, it’d look barely cooler, however you’re including some danger with none actual additional reward as that last Cursed Vitality Approach appears to be the one strike that issues.
I’ve tried to see if the opposite combos will do extra injury in the long run in Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Conflict, however a bunch of them I attempted tended to knock the enemy so distant that the Cursed Vitality Approach whiffed. I ended up shedding persistence and simply caught to the sq. button, and the sport largely couldn’t contact me after that time. Any time I attempted to department out, I swear the enemies would simply blast me from afar, teleport proper into my face out of nowhere and combo me as a substitute, or I’d miss with the one assault that will truly harm the enemy. So, I hope you just like the sq. button.
As brainless enjoyable, it type of works, however I nonetheless had extra issues with it. The sport touted having the ability to usher in a second character, however in Story Mode, you simply give this character instructions with the D-Pad. I hoped for the power to swap between characters to hyperlink strikes collectively in intricate methods, however you simply inform them to combat aggressively, defensively, or to attempt to coordinate with you. What I’ve discovered largely occurs is that the pair of you continuously interrupt one another’s combos, knocking foes away earlier than both of you land your Cursed Vitality Approach. I ended up losing ages on the tutorial stage of this paired battle as a result of we had been incapable of touchdown the massive particular co-op approach as a result of certainly one of us stored knocking the enemy away. So, having a companion normally meant doing no injury and getting beat up far more typically.
I’m genuinely struggling to seek out one thing optimistic to say about Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Conflict and its fight aside from that it’s purposeful. The environments could be damaged down for one thing that seems like a dynamic battle, however it simply means stuff disappearing after it will get hit or breaking into a couple of items with no spectacular results, more often than not. Your character’s varied Cursed Vitality Strategies are pretty unimpressive as nicely, with solely a handful of excessive stage methods doing something attention-grabbing in the event you do. And even then, it is advisable to cost it to full to take action, however you’re simply higher off touchdown smaller assaults and overwhelming your foe with fundamental strikes to do your low stage assaults. This additionally tends to set off particular Joint Assaults along with your companion that do stable injury (except you or them knocked your opponent too distant) and look fairly cool. So, once more, smashing sq. is one of the best factor you are able to do within the fundamental Story Mode.
The sport has a couple of different modes if Story Mode is sounding deeply underwhelming at this level. An internet co-op mode enables you to and a buddy combat a number of spirits in a row, with various ranges of problem in the event you’re enjoying Rush Battle or Survival Battle. It’s extra enjoyable to have one other particular person working collectively to combat intelligently, however solely a bit higher. You too can do on-line battles towards different gamers, and right here, it will in all probability assist to be taught these combos. Nevertheless, these fights lagged and chugged alongside so laborious that I’m undecided how a lot the combos would allow you to. And that’s once I might even discover a match.
If all you wanna do is smash buttons and beat up spirits from the anime, Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Conflict is serviceable. That’s about it. In the event you’re searching for any extra depth in any method, the sport merely doesn’t have it. Fight is overly easy, and if you attempt to make it something extra, you simply get thumped to your efforts. The help characters actively hinder you. The story is doled out within the worst method I can consider. The net is barren when it’s not lagging horribly. It’s only a flat, tiresome recreation that’s solely good for some senseless motion for these completely itching for something to do with the anime.
Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Conflict is on the market for the PS4, PS5, Nintendo Change, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X, and PC.
