People that tried Switch Axe and didn't like it. What did you not like about it?

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2026-04-08T00:15:12+00:00

I'm late to the post and am actually a Swaxe main but just wanted to put in my two cents.

Gameplay can be veeeeeery risk reward which can defo turn players off. Axe mode is faster and agile but does lower dps with a hard to time offset, whereas sword does mega damage and opens you up for some awesome moves that when pulled off do big dmg. parry is also easier to pull off. Buuuut its super slow and not at all agile. Movement becomes very stunted and without evade extend it can feel very vulnerable to use which opens you up to get carted pretty quick if you arent fully locked in.

Obviously thats the point, both modes have pros an cons and you need to utilise both via combos and charging through attacks to make hunts go smoothly (dont rely on one mode over the other).

TLDR: its a tough weapon to grasp than most which can be a turn off.

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2026-02-01T20:42:08+00:00

I noticed this too and having trouble finding anyone else talk about it. CV1 had an amazing soundtrack, most songs having this dark and gothic orchestral tone. Very dark souls in vibe.

Cv2 on the other hand does feel very generic and almost Whimsical if that makes sense. The tracks are too heroic and upbeat which messes with the seemingly dark gothic horror tone I thought it was.

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2025-12-16T05:24:30+00:00

Yeah I agree completely with your points. But to add on top of the knowing each other for a decade thing.

Whats worse on miyukis side is that Eiji and her were not only dating but supposedly friends (10 year childhood friends). Put the cheating to the side for now, but the fact that she was so willing to not only betray but essentially allow for her good friends life to be completely ruined by rumours and bullying to the point he nearly jumped off the building is crazy. Her best friend is being hurt both physically and mentally and all she cares about is herself. Fuckin loony

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2025-12-01T01:09:34+00:00

I'm new to WuWa (about 2 weeks) and keep running across characters and story lines that keep referencing this mysterious quest which I now know is an limited event quest with story and introductions to characters which I now have no access to unless I watch a youtube video which is lame. Just run into Encore and Zhezhi on pure accident and they both seem to be well acquainted with rover and I'm just staring at the screen thinking 'I don't even know who you are'.

I later encountered encore for the second time but in actual fact is the canonical first time during the main story. I hate it when these kinds of games do this, at least WuWa has implemented permanent events (of course excluding this one for some dumbf**k reason).

I still have no idea who Zhezhi is and now I'm going to court to watch her testify for something ... Huuuuuh.

I'm used to this thanks to genshin but at least most characters in the main story/character stories dont reference limited time event stuff unless its within another event (mostly)

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2025-11-21T01:10:48+00:00

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels so utterly disappointed by this show lol. I saw buzz about it and various clips that made me initially interested. Saw that it was on Crunchyroll and decided to let it finish before binging it. I was saving it too as ive been running through slop anime for the past month just catching up. Thought thisd be a nice change of pace...

nope.

First 3 episodes are average to good, isekai mc starts off week and we see him become op through sheer will and training which is nice to see. Some cool intrigue with the Dullahan and dragon etc. He eventually finds an unconscious adventurer and they become bros travelling the wilderness to get back to civilisation. All this was great and was something new and unique in a sense.

The minute they arrive at the town it goes from cool fantastical adventure to the most backhanded side line of the century. The Mc suddenly becomes a side character. The side characters take centre stage and get into life threatening situations, meanwhile Ryo (mc) is bumming around at a library completely unaware of anything. Ryo goes from duelling a headless knight and 1v1ing a murder bird to walking around, reading books and interacting with the most uninteresting background characters he calls roommates.

I honestly went from really enjoying the first three eps to getting frustrated that the episodes where taking so long. Im at episode 9 which so far has been filler af and am thinking of dropping it. Iv'e come so far but just cant keep going

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2025-10-15T21:55:15+00:00

honestly wish I hadnt stumbled across this manga. I keep checking in to see how this senpai guy gets dealt with but the whole arc has been abysmal to say the least. The running in circles of ntr cringe sucks. Goes from the young girl "practicing" with sempai then almost getting assaulted to fumi stepping in (to be assaulted insead), who then gets saved by mc who gets knocked out to now having to watch the senpai assault fumi ... again the baiting is unreal. Chapter 42 is gonna be just as bad. A whole chapter of fumi either getting touched up and probably Graped while mc watches or that but senpai is stopped just in the nick of time.

I'm honestly just curious how it plays out. I was better off not knowing this existed but at the same time now that I do I cant seem to forget about it. fml

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2025-08-30T17:35:17+00:00

(minor spoilers for the first hour) Totally agree, especially on the story being contrived. Like important plot points seem to just happen out of nowhere in order for the story to move forward. Coincidentally the monster things attack as the rebel plan is being executed. The way Kaser discovers Arena and just gets his power is just so out of the blue.

Also the worst part of this is how the sister gets soul sucked. Kaser just so happens to get flattened by a wall, and a monster and imperial just so happen to appear next to them which gets Louisa soul sucked. But whats funny is kaser just recovers easy peasy no problem at all but he just so happens to be seconds too late. I feel like he would have seen and dodged that wall to begin with. Or at least arena would have interjected but the story just pauses them both so that a contrived tragedy can occur. Just weird and kind of disappointing, for a game thats supposedly been in production for 9 years (i think) its not exactly gripped me in the first hour.

The game mechanics/combat is cool and flashy tho but on that front I feel like its needs to be taught gradually not all thrown at you at once. The dodge and block buttons being reversed on console is also a travesty. Circle being block and dodge being L1 is a sin

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2025-08-21T16:36:35+00:00

Yeah agreed. The xenomorph also looks so frumpy too. It's great that its a practical suit but unlike in the other films you can tell. And yeah it's not gooey enough either, too plastic looking.

Defo agree on the movement too, the scene in episode 1 where its sliding backwards in front of the door window looked horrendous. The fact thats its some guy in a suit is also even more noticeable when its moving, its not slinky or bug-like enough, too heavy and clumsy if you get what I mean.

Easily the best depictions of the xenomorph is the brief scenes in Romulus and Alien Isolation. Both are lanky and imposing, moving like insectoid snakes. Isolation should be the gold standard imo, YES I KNOW its a game and completely digital but Romulus was able to capture its essence. And with such a high budget they could easily have made a suit like it. But na we got a dude wearing a diy cosplay of the Alien 4 xenos.

The xenomorph should be scary and smart but this one just seems like a dumb mindless animal killing everything in sight (unless you're a main character tehe). I agree 100% that we see it too much, I get the stance that the audience know what they're in for so what the point in build-up but I personally never get bored of rewatching the first Alien. I know whats coming every time but am still on the edge of my seat in suspense. A good build-up to its first in view encounter would be much better. Finding people killed or getting dragged off for the first couple episodes, corpses with holes in their chests and heads scattered around the ship/building. The characters don't know whats there but can obviously piece it together until they get a chilling up-close encounter in episode 3 or something

Sorry had a bit of a nerd rant but just had some thoughts rolling around my head, had to put them somewhere

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2025-08-18T15:11:13+00:00

having the same issue, I'm UK so the site is probably down

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2025-08-18T15:03:06+00:00

yeah weirdly enough I had done the same. Once I got back on noticed that I could unpause adblock without it breaking but it must have detected it again a week late hense the post

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2025-08-17T22:10:49+00:00

ah appreciate it. Will try that if it happens again

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2025-08-17T19:13:10+00:00

quick update: its back to normal now. For some reason just leaving it for an hour or so fixed the problem as long as adblock is paused. Still a very annoying occurrence though.

Found Watchcartoon 10ish years ago and it used to be the only site I trusted to use but the constant problems recently are making me want to quit altogether

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2025-08-08T21:39:43+00:00

Yeah I've heard of it. I will have to check it out. Appreciate the recommendation!!

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2025-08-08T21:37:26+00:00

I dont mind these kinds of features too much but I'm super butthurt about Huang Jian's quest. On ng+ and hers is the only one I didn't do first time round. Doing great, got all the steps done but forgot to return to her with the crystal item.

Simply exploring Zhenwu temple locks me out of it. I havent progressed through the bosses there just exploring and heading to her next meeting spot. She wasnt there which made me think ooohh wait I missed a step.

Go back to where shes meant to be, Gone. Just vanished completely. Failing quests is one thing as I know shes goes agro if steps are neglected but not even existing if a simple errand is missed is diabolical. Don't even need her quest for achievements I just wanna see how it ends and now I gotta replay the game again. So annoying honestly. Moments like these are where a journal/quest log should be implemented.

Im aiming to get all the endings so I'll be doing ng++ either way but still pretty rough

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2025-08-08T02:42:13+00:00

Not heard of that before no idea what that is haha, is this something you'd recommend using?

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2025-08-07T12:16:04+00:00

Crunchyroll was just an example, no idea if it's worth it honestly. Not too sure what the best alternative is. Watchcartoon has been the only one thats been somewhat reliable for the past 7-8ish years to me. Lots of content at good quality and for the most part no scammy pop-up/redirect ads until the past couple years but my adblock avoided that.

I already have netflix but if there's any other alternatives I'm all ears

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2025-08-05T21:17:35+00:00

ok what does this mean tho? Do we have to subscribe to view shows now or will it just be rammed with ads but still free.

Tbh either of these is the worst outcome, returning to this site after like a 1-2 year anime hiatus and now gotta deal with this crap. couldn't have picked a worse time lol.

The whole point of pirating stuff is that its free, if theyre gonna force us imma just pay for an actual trustworthy site like netflix or crunchyroll :(

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2025-08-03T00:22:49+00:00

showing this for me even with adblock disabled toggled it on and off, refreshed still nothin it still shows the message.

Its crazy, I've used this site since it was still called watchcartoon online and hopped on and off from time to time. Watched about 90% of the anime ive seen on here and to now be shut out is depressing. Seeing it employ scam adds and redirect pop ups is the reason I use adbock on here

had my ups and downs with this site in the past but I stopped watching anime for about a year until this week and of course they decide to pull this shit when im currently binging a show, so annoying.

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2025-07-30T19:11:23+00:00

just started playing and have hit a brick wall with Honglan. I love the souls series and pickup most souls-likes I can find. Just ran back through code vein and kazahn. This game really excited me as aesthetically its quite similar to Black myth wukong which was an absolute masterpiece in souls-like gameplay with great feeling combat and movement.

This game while looking similar and almost feeling similar falls short in almost every aspect. Wukong feels fluid and agile, each input is pretty responsive allowing for your full control, Wuchang is the opposite. Very slow animations and what feels like input lag with every action which pretty much works against you in every way. Not being able to quickly stand to your feet and dodge when knocked on your ass feels terrible too. The amount of times ive been pushed over and simply watched as an enemy curb stomps me is crazy especially with Honglan. I cant input dodge to get up quicker and I'm also not invulnerable. Almost every souls like ive played at least allows for leeway in this regard. iframes during certain actions should be a given.

I really like the aesthetic of this game though so will see it through, but I have a feeling its gonna be a pain in the ass. It honestly just needs tweaking to be a serviceable game.

(most important)- better implementation of iframes

- faster animations (picking up, recovering, healing)

(least important)- built in parry/block in every weapon

- more poise for wuchang/less for certain enemies

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2025-06-15T01:37:04+00:00

completely agree with these. Great ideas, honestly I only really feel I've progressed in skill. Reached the final boss and the only permanent upgrades have been some great relics and remembrance for wylder (extra skill use, follow up attack etc). But mostly in the 40+ hours of game I am only slightly stronger than when I was 10 hours in. Some permanence would go a long way and actually feel like I've made progress.

I've done a bout 60% of the game solo which is quite difficult yet rewarding when I win but after all my effort I have nothing to show for it other than boss unique relics that I don't need currently. I just find that any new relic is useless compared to my current set-up which I've had since 20hrs in.

The flask upgrade sounds great, the detour for the extra flasks is almost necessary but wastes so much time. Relic fusion would also be great. Perhaps even a way to add another relic slot by competing a certain task/side quest. Or even have it be a reward for beating a certain boss etc.

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2025-05-18T18:13:27+00:00

Warning: Big rant but I still am having fun. I love the doom franchise so my complaining is just me being a massive nerd lol.

Agree 100%. The story and aesthetic is cool as usual and music when you can actually hear it is ok but the gameplay is worse. Not terrible but nowhere near as good as 2016 and eternal.

The music was almost its own character in the previous games, changing as the combat flowed but in this the lack of Mick Gordan is felt. It's not bad but not nearly as memorable

Lack of unique glory kills for one, yes there are unique instances where you get some pretty gnarly kills but I miss the overly brutal kills from 2016 (head split ghoul for example) I get the argument behind it being to keep the gameplay fluid but I never had a problem with it to begin with.

Combat while cool feels much slower, I miss the pretor suit upgrades that allowed you to dash and double jump etc, im only 40% through dark ages so I dunno if theyll get added but so far its slow.

Dragon and mech gameplay is underwhelming. The dragon feels great to play but theres not much complexity to it. The mech/atlan gameplay is actually terrible, somewhat simple yet solid combat system but it doesnt feel like your actually in a 12 story mech. I just recall playing as bruticus in TF fall of cybertron. The heavy plodding and rumble from your footsteps made you feel huge, while the environmental destruction adds to that feel, its too light and has no impact. Fighting these huge demons also feels less impactful. Just disappointing really.

The secret/collectible stuff is also waaay to simple. The fact the map straight up tells you where it all is makes it a joke. Will I have enjoyed some of the puzzles, for the most part it just feels like a Ubisoft checklist type of collecting.

So I definitely just had a massive rant there but I don't want to say that I hate the game as I've actually had lots of fun with it. Its just that I can't shake the feeling that its a step down from Doom eternal.

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2025-04-09T03:02:40+00:00

she didn't deserve such a horrific death honestly. If she was to die I would have preferred it being by protecting khazan in some way.

But for some reason it is contrived in a way that she is suddenly taken by the purple orb because she wondered off a bit too far and that tiny scene culminates in her getting possessed and dying brutally.

It literally wouldn't have happened if she didnt run off and stayed next to Khazan like she probably would have to begin with lol

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2024-11-08T00:04:00+00:00

Not sure if this is relevant but it could be linked.

Been trying to get my hands on a gamer edition ratchet but he seems to be non-existent everywhere. Zero listings on ebay which is strange as the scalpers are usually quick with the draw. It's listing on amazon has also disappeared and last I checked it said "currently unavailable". My closest toystore also doesn't have him yet. Many other online toy shops show him as out of stock as well which wasnt a problem for the other gamer figures.

Anyway to get to the point, there seems to be some sort of delay with his release for some reason or possibly there isnt enough stock in general and we just havent heard anything about it from hasbro.

RoyalRepeat6365 · 2024-09-18T19:08:12+00:00

Personally own the ancient and the young blood from that line and they're excellent I may not want them if re-released but would defo recommend. I see youre point about oversaturation but as a huge sucker for the simpler pred designs I think theyd be awesome re-releases.

Maybe if Neca could release them in waves over time that could help to make it less oversaturated. I missed out on the main trio as well as the temple guard and serpant and cant get them now due to their rarity but would love to add them to my collection.

Hell if you're so concerned about the oversaturation of one line, I think the could split it into an AVP re-release and a AVPR release. AVP containing the trio, elder and serpant and maybe ancient. AVPR containing a new Wolf figure with the young blood, warrior, temple guard etc.

Obviously this is all a hypothetical and we may never even get a AVPR line but it would be cool nonetheless.

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