After all, it's not much fun (and certainly confusing) to see a bunch of characters you know nothing about walloping baddies and having the game assume you know why they're significant.
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You see, most titles that are based on well-entrenched gaming and pop culture franchises, such as Dragon Ball FighterZ and Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers tend to ship with an additional, unwritten clause on the back of the box, which says that only players who are already invested in the series will be able to fully appreciate everything that it has to offer. Rather, it's an unfortunate side effect of being a fanservice title. Of course it isn't perfect, either - the game compensates for it with a rather convoluted narrative and some pretty dull boss fights, but the former isn't really its own fault. In that sense, it's actually in the same boat as Fate: Extella LINK and the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm games, just to name a few examples.ĭespite what the above implies, it's not 100% bad, and what I will concede is that the general package of MoH, namely its aesthetics, audio and combat mechanics, actually gel pretty well if we're judging it in a vacuum. It's all about the satisfaction of seeing your favourite characters do what they do best on a video game canvas, and as such a lot of its appeal tends to be surface-level at most. I'll be blunt here - the game is a fanservice title, so you shouldn't really go into it expecting anything that's out of this world innovative. As such, I'm hardly the most informed person when it comes to this particular franchise, but hey, if reviewing Kamen Rider: Memory of Heroez helps pay the bills, then I'm all for it.
For the record, the last Kamen Rider series I watched on TV was Kamen Rider Ryuki (or Masked Rider Dragon Knight in the English dub), and that was more than a decade ago.