I had plenty of fun with Lethal League‘s online portion when it worked. As a regular human, I’m not good enough to be a Lethal League pro – but neither are my equally human opponents. Most of the time, it’s difficult to ascertain where a ball is going from your opponent’s animation alone, if you’re not willing to risk getting up close to a charging shot for a counter (And I wouldn’t recommend it, since there were times where my character was sucked into the orbit of the ball like some kind of black hole, messing with my timing and costing me the round).
On the occasions where I managed to counter my opponent’s shot and return the ball, the AI would often react with pixel-perfect timing and a much harder shot. Sure, when your opponent is charging up a powerful shot, you can see their meter in the bottom of the screen so you know when to counter, but it’s rarely worth the risk to take your eyes away from the action. It’s just curious to find something so unreasonably difficult in such an offbeat package. That sort of difficulty might be fine in a game sold on that level of intensity, but Lethal League is advertised as a wild pick-up-and-play party game. I never managed to properly account for the length of the animation, so I was often punished by the AI. There were many instances where I was absolutely positive I input the commands to whip around and hit the ball, yet the ball still hit my character and I lost the round. That’s part of what makes Lethal League so unpleasant to play when you’re going up against the CPU: the animation. When I would try and set up shots I was positive would net me the win, my foe would do a pixel-perfect about-face and send the ball right back at my gourd. The late-game opponents countered shots with a regularity that human players in the game’s online multiplayer never managed to replicate. Also, the “challenge” mode is not fun at all, at least once you start getting into more advanced AI opponents.Īfter days of trying to figure out what about Lethal League‘s high-level play was so vexing, I came to a realization: the AI can predict where the ball is going and is fully aware of the intricacies of its animation. It’s like racquetball, but you want to hit the other person with the ball. There’s more to it than that, but you get the idea. If your opponent gets hit as a direct result of your actions, you win the round. You’re put in an enclosed space with up to three other competitors, and you’re trying to spike a ball into your opponent’s body. Lethal League is a fighting game in the very broadest sense – it reminds me more of Towerfall, in that both games have very difficult single-player modes and you need four controllers if you want to play it correctly. I do not much care for Lethal League anymore. Now I can only connect sporadically, and even the matches I’m able to find can end in a disconnection. I won a decent amount of matches, all before the netcode decided to give up on me. I held on as we got closer to release, hoping that the online multiplayer would be better.
Single-player Lethal League became a chore. “Wait a minute,” I said to myself as I lost to Mirror Candyman for the umpteenth time.
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It has plenty of style, it has a fun central mechanic, and it filled my need for a chaotic yet accessible fighter to bust out at parties – now that I no longer have access to Smash Bros.īut as I made my way through the game’s Arcade mode while I waited for the PS4 version to launch, I started having less and less fun as I went up against computer-controlled opponents with a preternatural ability to tell exactly where the ball was going to land.
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