RWBY was actually one of the first anime I ever watched alongside Akame Ga Kill and Tokyo Ghoul, I would eventually read the manga for Tokyo Ghoul, which I do not regret because of how beautiful the story is. Anyways lets get into the review
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Premise:
RWBY Arrowfell was made by Wayforward and Arc System Works, and published Rooster Teeth, the former owners of RWBY with the property rights to the RWBY IP, now being owned by another company.
RWBY Arrowfell takes place during the events of Volume 7, where Team RWBY spent there time in Solitas or Atlas and Mantle, specifically during the montage that we had of Team RWBY, and Team JNPR going around Atlas and completing missions for the people either fighting against Grimm or just helping the people daily. There is no mention of Team JNPR is up to however, which is a bit surprising considering the importance of Team JNPR throughout the volumes. In this game, there is a plot to discredit James Ironwood, the leader of Atlas, and blaming him on various Grimm attacks. The plan was to harness the emotions, specifically fear, of Mantle's people, and store them in containers that would call Grimm towards them, since by nature, Grimm are created via negative emotions and are drawn to them to gain strength.
Throughout the story of Arrowfell, we journey across Solitas, going to various smaller settlements, ruins, and even exploring some bits of Atlas and Mantle. Which side note, I'm glad that they added scenes of Atlas because in the RWBY Anime, most of the screen time was shown either on the outskirts of Atlas or in Mantle, so I'm glad we got to see more of Atlas.
The main villain is... I'll get to that because it was not so suprising for one thing, and the other... it felt really lazy, namely the reason for his villainous deeds being, so fucking generic. But we'll get to that.
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Gameplay:
RWBY Arrowfell is a 2D Metroidvania, in which you can swap between the four main characters of RWBY whenever you want, and each of them come equipped with there own unique ability. Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long. Ruby Rose comes equipped with her signature scythe that can be turned into her signature gun as well, and her ability is her semblance where she turns herself into rose pellets and rushed forward which is essentially the shadow dash from Hollow Knight. Weiss Schnee comes equipped with her signature rapier that allows her to use Dust, a source of minerals that allows Weiss to use various elements, her ability is to summon glyphs allowing her to get to hard reach areas and also release them as a small attack that fires in a 360 area striking everything around it. Blake Belladonna comes equipped with her Katana and pistol, while her ability to make shadow clones that can be used to flank enemies, or to keep a door open when they stand on a pressure plate, the shadow clones can also be used alongside other members of Team RWBY when they use there melee or ranged attack. Yang Xiao Long comes equipped with her fiery gauntlets, which allow her to fire explosive rounds and her ability is to ignite herself on fire and smash the ground destroying specific areas and doing twice the amount of damage that her melee attack can do.
Each character has there own skill tree, increasing there melee damage, range damage, energy healing, and defense. Each member must be upgraded separately, and game has enough for all members of the team... at least it should by the time you fight the final boss.
The game has two types of enemies, humans and Grimm. If your a RWBY fan, you will recognize most of the Grimm since all of the Grimm in this game come directly from the show, as far as I'm aware this game only introduces like one or two new Grimm like an Imp and what looks like a Bat like Grimm that I don't know the names of. Besides the Grimm, the Humans are fairly basic enemies that often times won't give you as much trouble as the Grimm.
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Story:
The story is... fine...
The game has the story place over five chapters, each chapter ends with a unique boss fight. Chapter 1: is a Grimm Goliath, Chapter 2: a greedy businessman in a giant mech, Chapter 3: the man who has been taking the fear of Mantle's people for the Containers, Chapter 4: a team of Huntresses, and Chapter 5: the main villain.
The story doesn't bring anything new to the world of RWBY, just a minor story with just a minor foreshadowing of Ironwoods character assassination in Volume 8. The story shows off the corruption of Atlas, with personal grudges being one of the themes and the reason why the main villain is after Ironwood, like I said, very generic villain reason. Which now reminds me of Mysterio from Spider-Man: Far From Home.
Throughout each chapter, Team RWBY journeys through Atlas and Mantle, fighting Grimm, helping people, and being the amazing we all know and love. I do like that the writers decided to not include Jinn, the Four Relics, and some of the past volumes, which helps the games story out by keeping it solely focused on Team RWBY's first official mission as Huntresses.
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Ending Thoughts
The game is fine, nothing really new or exciting so its a 7/10, it's fine and might also be the reason why I'll check out Convergence, a League of Legends Story another Metroidvania.
I am also playing Tales of Vesperia again, and also plan on checking out Code Vein, Remnant: From the Ashes, and For Honor, and also plan on getting a Helldivers 2 review out since I play that game a lot with my friends.
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