I was happy to pay for a game to support the developers and did make an in-game purchase. Add in the card mechanism and poor translation of the text and you’re left with a distasteful feeling much like an uninterested pretty date that costs you a small fortune. Even casually, this game grinds your progression to a halt in an effort to force you to pay for something. In some cases the soft wall goes so far that the story becomes irrelevant and disjointed and has caused me to skip through the text. Overall the game is alright, but the story is extremely slow to play through as a result of that soft wall designed to force a player to grind or pay for tokens, keys, or other in game currency to have a chance at maybe leveling up their gear or gaining “stability” points. For example, an opponent that literally out heals any damage you could possibly do. I’ve seen comments that if you’re skilled enough you can win at this difficulty, but in some situations there really is no possibility of winning even at the highest skill levels. The player progresses through the story to level up the character and eventually reaches soft walls for content with “insane” or “impossible” difficulty. Shadow Fight 3 is an visually stunning fighting style game with a text campaign story marked by individual story battles. What happened Nekki? Get your act together and make Shadow Fight 3 fun to play again. It makes me want to rip my hair out and delete the game. This doesn’t make me want to try harder and continue playing the game. The only times I was able to beat him were when I perfected him after at least 15+ failed attempts. And this is only on the basic ascension battle progression with the final judge set equipped. He is an incredibly hard to fight opponent, who can summon ice bots and attack you simultaneously, easily finishing you off within 3 shots or less. To name one is the “Bad Okada” battle in the winter festival ascension. Events were supposed to be made so that people from all equipment levels have a chance at receiving a better set of gear, not discouraged them from playing the game with incredibly unbalanced boss fights.

Furthermore, I am also disappointed in how unbalanced the “boss fight” of events has become. I completely understand the logic behind creating the stability score as a means of putting everyone back to square one, but it is incredibly difficult to increase your stability, even in a week’s worth of playing without spending real money on things like “completion packs”. As a veteran player, I was incredibly excited for the release of chapter VII as well as the return of the winter festival event, however I must say that I’m disappointed by how unbalanced and grindy the game has become.

Shadow fight 3 review