My Hero One's Justice Review (Switch)

Turning My Hero Academia into just another brawler in a way sums up my issue with the anime. The anime to me just feels like a big "action school anime" of which there have been dozens of over the years. Academia does what it does right, very right. It has creative abilities, fun characters, and great action, but what it does wrong, it does very wrong. Rarely if ever do the character seem remotely Heroic - this is despite them spouting off about become heroes almost constantly. Everything has a "me me me" feel about it. That said, the good still outweighs the bad, the action and animation and most abilities are really cool. To be fair, the end of the most recent season suggested the show would be getting more serious too.

Back to the game. Anime games have a history of doing this. It's the easiest and laziest way to turn an anime into a game. "Look at this anime with characters who can fight! Welp, no more thinking, let's just make yet another fighting game!" Done. Naruto did it, Bleach did it. One Piece did it. Pretty sure SAO did it, but more recent SAO games have thankfully branched out. Most anime that get enough popularity get a mediocre fighting game.

I don't have anything against fighting games, but anime is such a rich medium full of all kinds of fun and interesting worlds and ideas. They could do so much more if only they tried. But game developers know they don't have to because fans are eager to play with their favorite characters and will happily buy it anyway. (I know I have bought many mediocre Gundam games over the years for that very reason)

Personally I'd love a school RPG ala Persona, where we could be our own character with a quirk all our own, we'd have to plan out our time between physical training, quirk training, regular studies, classes, an social life. So much of the anime is only about the fights, I want to see what these hero classes are like, and what they do after school.

@bluemujika See! That would be an awesome idea for a My Hero game!

Why do writers here always says no pun intended when they definitely meant the pun?

@Heavyarms55 don't forget the nanatsu no taizai and black clover games that just came out this year.

And yeah, a lot of the games are mediocre, but there are some games that just feels way better solely because of the source material. For example, one piece pirate warriors, is on of the best games i've played, Nd most of the fun came from the use of the characters right, despite the core game being somewhat repetitive.

@Zoroflamingo It's to highlight the 'Pun', no pun intended.

@Heavyarms55 completely agree. I feel the game needs more depth than just fighting.

I think the game could have done a better job of explaining the story up until season two (where the game's story mode starts off at). This might be the introduction to the My Hero Academia series for a lot of gamers, so it might be awkward jumping into Deku's story at the halfway point for the uninitiated.

@Zoroflamingo Ugh, I'd like to forget Black Clover. I dropped that anime so hard. MC sounded like he smoked a pack of cigarettes every day for 80 years and then drank 22 red bull...

Anyway, by no means were my examples meant to be all inclusive. lol

How in sweet hell did this score LESS than SNK Heroines? This has nearly twice the number of fighters, free DLC, more modes and (compared to SNK Boobies) way more complex graphics and gameplay.

What's the frame rate? Based on videos on YouTube that run at 60 fps it looks like it hits 60 but rarely stays there. If so, it just doesn't compare graphically to other fighters on Switch. I think every fighter I own on Switch is basically locked at 60, which is awesome and necessary because of the speed of interactions in fighting games.
The Powerstone comparison makes me curious about this game. The Powerstone games are some fun games!

@bluemujika @Heavyarms55 As tempting ideas like these may sound, they're just not feasible. First of all, creating a balanced framework for players to customize their characters within in accordance with the in-universe rules is impossible for series with robust abilitiy systems (JoJo, One Piece, HxH, BnHA etc.), that have not been finished yet to boot. Secondly, it would require a lot of attention from the original creator, who is already busy enough with his actual work on the manga, without having to come up with ideas for activities not shown in the series itself that could be translated into a video game.
Stories about characters with very limited skill sets, like Dragon Ball or Shingeki or Kyojin, are relatively easy to adapt with option for players to make their own creations, but for everything else the line has to be drawn somewhere, although I admit that developers too often choose the easier route when there's still some extra room to spare.

@Dom I must say, people here gave you a lot of s**t when you were the editor but I appreciate your multiple reviews each week and the effort you put to play and write about all kinds of different games. Thank you

@bluemujika I know nothing about this show but I would totally buy a game like that!

Is this a fighter only game or does it have o world and a story (like Naruto ultimate series)?
The Naruto series has very basic fighting but I had way more fun with it than I should

I was gonna get this game but the sheer paper thin qualities of the combat and the fact that a handful of characters seem to be overpowered, and with a lackluster story. The Ultimate Ninja Storm Trilogy is just a better buy overall.

The lack of an English dub for this game also upsets me, because a dubbing team already exists for MHA. And not being able to understand what they say during fights was the straw that broke the camel's back.

I'm gonna be honest.

I like this a lot more than SNK Heroines, which to me, was the real fighting game disappointment this year. I was really excited for that game and it just turned out to be not that good.

But this one, I actually really enjoyed... right off the bat. I'd give it a 7 at least, just from my early impressions, with the potential to maybe be an 8 once I play more.

@Preposterous They could always come up with a few pre-made abilities and let you customize your character's appearance.

I love this game! I can create my digimon in this game and create ultimate hero of my digital self I love it it's an amazing game and i want to keep playing it denki is my davis character and i transformed deku into my digimon partner v-mon but let me tell you this one thing straight i will always be davis and v-mon will always ve my digimon partner and i'm only doing this on a game on my switch me, davis, and v-mon, my digimon partner are inseperable

@DigiF4N i will never touch a ps4 or xbox but only play on my nintendo switch

I'm actually having lots of fun with this game! For some reason it takes me back to the first time I played Rival Schools.

Not all anime are based on manga. Many are based on light novels, some on video games (like the long-running Pokémon anime), and while rare a few are even original series.

I couldn’t disagree more with this review. This is one of the fighting games, maybe even THE fighting game, I’m enjoying the most this year.
I love pretty much everything about this game.
The battles are fast and furious.
The reviewer is of the opinion that an approachable and easy to learn fighting game is a bad thing. Well, to me it is not. Fighting games are among my favorite games but sometimes the learning curve is just so steep that takes away all the enjoyment from the game. This game doesn’t have that problem. It’s not a technical fighter like BlazBlue but that’s actually a very good thing.
This game is a solid 8 in my opinion.

According to Metacritic NL is scoring this lower than anyone else. The fact that the same reviewer gave SNK Heroines a higher score suggests that this review is doing little more than dragging down the average. It has its faults; long loading times, annoying camera angles, lack of decent tutorial, too many static cutscenes, but it's way better than a 6/10. You get a fair bit for your money and the day 1 update provided free DLC and an arcade mode.

Wow. I'm not sure what I'd give it, but it'd be higher than a 6/10.