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This game is almost a bit addicting. I keep finding myself coming back to it just to a run. Sure sometimes the talent tree is a little luck based and you may end up too weak to really do much (unless you pick wizard then you can just get so many talent points that you usually just break the game) but the game itself is just fun to play and come back to. As what everyone else has said, best $2 you can spend on Steam. There is a lot of content for early access, and there's only more getting added. Even if nothing else was added though, it's easily worth the money.

Despite the game saying it has splitscreen and full controller support, there's seemingly no way to actually have a second player join. So if it doesn't matter, maybe the game is good for you, but we were just at the beginning, so we didn't see any actual game play.

This is a game that made me somewhat interested in trying traditional fighting games rather than just platform fighting games, ala Smash Brothers. I usually don't like them, as the concept of having to hold "Backwards" (Which is also an accurate, though confusing, way of putting it) counter intuitive, though FighterZ has opened my eyes to see just how the system works and how well it works, with it's many mix-up options, such as high and low attacks and having to hold forward and backwards.

The controls are simple enough that they don't require too much practice to be able to pull attacks off. You won't find any attacks that require you to go "Up up down down-forward forward backwards forwards high punch" here. It's usually a quarter circle movement, and one of the attack buttons, 3 of which will do nearly the same attack with different properties, and one of which is usually a special attack. Each character is different however, resulting in the characters not feeling the same at all, which a lot of other fighting games can tend to feel.

The graphics are absolutely stunning. They are not realistic, as they shouldn't be, but they get almost every single detail down. You can find videos on YouTube that show what each attack is a reference too, but it's not simply service to the fans. It's how the character would fight. It's how they do fight in the Manga/Anime. The shading and effects and animations are amazing, but they don't put the graphics before performance. I was running it at max settings with a GTX 760, a much older card that doesn't have that much power, and very rarely did it drop beneath a constant 60 FPS, at 2K resolution, so the game is also very well optimized.

If you like fighting games but not so much DB, you'll more than likely like FighterZ. There's enough to it that a non DB fan might like it.
If you like DB, but maybe don't like normal fighting games, you may still like FighterZ. It's simple enough to learn, but hard to master. If not, you'll know if you don't like it within 2 hours, and can refund it.

The reviews said that it was a very good game, and that the 'screenshots and video did not do it justice' but after buying it, I realized it was quite a shallow fighting game where button mashing and spamming was the way to win, along with one over-powered character. Fights are boring and frustrating and over extremely quickly. The tutorial in the game is quite dreadful, with no practice or training, and some of the text is extremely difficult to read, like the controls.

As many people have said, the character balance is all over the place. And while some other people enjoyed the art style, I did not, not nearly as much. The bosses were quite annoying to fight too, as they played like the regular characters, but with far more health, and some sort of gimmick to the fight that you had to figure out. Though most of the fights end up being "Button mash" or "Run away until special attack recovers" and as it seemed that every character moved at the same speed, it was annoying on both accounts.

This game is absolutely superb. Even playing alone can be enjoyable, but it gets even better with a friend. It's very challenging, and you have to be able to think quickly. In Co-op, the items are not shared, but used by the person who picks them up, yet you share money. So you need to work together with your teammates because otherwise the game /will/ beat you. Get this game if you can and enjoy it as much as you can, because it's a marvelous platform-roguelike that will test your skills.