If you just want to know if you should buy this game, I'll make it easy for you. DON'T. If you want to know why, keep reading. You'll get more reasons not to buy RWBY: Grimm Eclipse than you (or, frankly, anyone) needs.

For this review, I will present all of the flaws I found with RWBY: Grimm Eclipse in a list format. If you're planning on reading this all the way through, you might want to use the bathroom first. You'll be here awhile.

-Some of the possible attacks are irrelevant. Ruby's Light+Heavy combo is a perfect example. The Light+Light+Heavy combo does more damage, has about the same range, and doesn't take much longer to execute. Blake's Light+Heavy combo has some use, but only as a quick travel mechanism (combining this combo with Dodge allows you to skate across the map at absurd velocity), so it too is largely irrelevant to combat, and Yang's Light+Heavy combo has no real purpose.

-Weiss' melee attacks are strictly worse than her ranged attack with just one upgrade. A single cycle of her ranged attack (2 normal+1 special) can kill a Creep when her melee combos can't.

-Part of the reason for Weiss' reduced damage is her ability to freeze her enemies with a Light+Light+Heavy combo, but this isn't that good. Creeps aren't worth the time to freeze, Ursai, Borbatusks, and Mutant Beowolves appear to be immune to freezing, and Weiss can't really do much to enemies once she freezes them.

-Using light attacks on their own is just pathetic, and there's no reason not to use a combo instead of a normal attack. This is irritating, to say the least.

-Yang's shotguns are just... bad. Since they have such a wide spread and low effective range, they're really only good as crowd control, and they don't have the damage to do so, and even if they did, having your crowd control tactic interrupted by missiles that aren't much deadlier than Nerf darts makes it pretty ineffective.

-Some of the best features of previous versions of the game are gone. While bullet management was somewhat frustrating in the first build, having to time your reloading was an interesting challenge. I'd personally recommend that the developers take a page out of Overwatch's book- infinite magazines, finite magazine size. This would keep the tempo element of bullet management without the "Minecraft Survival Mode" element.

-Another thing that appears to be missing is blast attacks. These were actually interesting, as they were a combo that wasn't just a variation of "mash LMB some number of times, then hit RMB", and the mix of melee and ranged combat is one of the things that made RWBY's fight scenes so entertaining to watch.

-The developers removed the option to do most of the special attacks from the original Early Access version on their own, instead making the ones that weren't area-of-effect into team attacks and "every-third-ranged-attack" attacks. True, the area-of-effect attacks were just better than the other special attacks for the most part, but this wasn't always the case. If you look at gameplay footage of the original game (back when it was called "RWBY: Grim Eclipse) you see Buster Shot and Whirlwind used just as much, if not more, than Crescendo. Instead of taking away the other options, why not balance all of them out to relatively equal power level instead?

-Enemies feel boring to fight. Creeps are somewhat interesting due to their ability to burrow underground and attack you from below... the first time you see them. Beowolves feel way too inert, Ursai have the ability to slam you with a boulder at range that there appears to be NO WAY TO EVADE OR COUNTER, some of the more interesting Grimm (Nevermores, King Taijitu, Griffons) are noticeably absent, and Grimm are either far too easy to kill or impossible to defend against.

-The robots could have been fun to fight as elite, more difficult foes. Perhaps special sequences of moves could get past their guard, much like with the Brawlers in One Finger Death Punch. Perhaps they could have weak points to attack, like the Colossi in Shadow of the Colossus. (I find myself alluding to a lot of better games while writing this.) Instead, they can't be defended against effectively, attack quickly enough to disrupt most combo moves, and don't offer any opportunities for moves other than "do the same one or two combos you've used for the entire game" if you don't feel like shooting them with stunning ranged attacks... over.... and over... and over....

-Countermoves and team attacks are inconsistent. It's never really well-explained how you get the opportunity to do either, and sometimes, they JUST DON'T WORK.

-Taunts are cool, but giving them any purpose in combat at all would have been nice.

-Some form of voice chat would have been a nice feature. Part of the little fun this game provides is getting to work as a team, which requires quick communication in the heat of battle, something that is highly difficult to achieve with a text-only communication system.

-Hearing the same four or five voice lines a dozen times is a kind of torture that would make a medieval Inquisitor proud. The lines aren't even that good. They read like caricatures of Team RWBY were speaking them, they're virtually interchangable, so if you've heard one of Weiss' lines, you don't really need to hear the others, and the lines show no interaction between the Huntresses. A friend of mine had the idea for "multi-character gestures", which would work like the gestures in Portal 2's cooperative campaign, and which would add some of the personality that makes RWBY such a great show into the game that besmirches the series' name.

-Ozpin's lines are horribly written. He feels utterly devoid of personality.

-Dr. Merlot is a caricature who doesn't interest me at all. When you encounter a great villain in a story, you hate them but also understand why they're doing what they're doing and maybe even feel a little guilty empathy. When you encounter a good villain, you hate them for all the right reasons. Dr. Merlot is neither a great villain nor a good one. He's simply another iteration of the "Mad Scientist" stereotype, and his lines aren't that good either. NO ONE IN ANY STORY WHATSOEVER SHOULD SAY "superhighway of scientific progress" OR "you should be getting eaten alive right now" UNLESS IT IS IN A PARODY OF SUCH TERRIBLE WRITING.

-The plot makes no sense. Why is Dr. Merlot sabotaging "Control Centers"? Why is he releasing mutated Grimm into the wild? Why would he destroy his lab just because his Mutant Deathstalker was killed? What in blazes is this mysterious "serum", anyway? None of these questions are ever answered, and the game provides no motivation for the main characters other than "one of the professors told me to".

-There really isn't much replay value. The game is mostly the same every time you play, and the incentives to return (challenges that unlock new abilities, like the better versions of the Ultimate attacks, and Hunter Rank) are as grindy and unsatisfying as the first playthrough.

-$25 is far too much to charge for a game that doesn't even feel finished. I'd rather get the first version, which is essentially "Red Trailer: The Game", for $25 than this shambling disappointment.

There are probably at least a dozen more problems with the game that I didn't cover here, but I think this covers most of the major flaws of RWBY: Grimm Eclipse.

I'm actually not an Hack and Slay-Fan, but since I saw the show, I really wanted to play this game. I were pretty surprised when I found out that I actually like it! Well I don't like it, I love it! *la la la* I also love the animations and designs.

Its a good game i hope they will add more soon

How could you not like this

Pretty Good imo, but not that addicting

I never felt this kind of shityness before.

THAT ♥♥♥♥ING "UI"

THAT ♥♥♥♥ING "Background Music"

THAT ♥♥♥♥ING "Voice Acting"

THAT ♥♥♥♥ING "Dialogue"

HOLLY ♥♥♥♥. JUST EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING LOOKS SOOOO ♥♥♥♥ING CHEAP AND CRINGE.

JUST PRESS START BUTTON ON STEAM.

YOU WILL KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT INSTANTLY

THAT "OHHHHH YEAHHHHHH".

JUST HOLLY ♥♥♥♥. GO ♥♥♥♥ YOURSELF IF YOU FIND THIS "LOL SOO FUNNY XDDDDDD"

This game was good like quarters of Penny you left on the middle of the arena. It's in the past, deal with it.

Fun game but not worth the price they are charging....The content in this game is very repetitive and very less...If you are a RWBY fan and really want this then better get it during sale...

Rushed out of early access with mechanics that need to be fleshed out.
Definitely not worth the full price.

I recommend this game