Prizefighters 2

This game has a really good baseline but doesn’t work on several levels, mostly centering around the week to week cash management. You start your career splitting $200 each fight, and earn somewhere around $100 per fight depending on whether you win or lose. This is simply not enough based on the other mechanics. For example, each time you want to rank up an aspect of the gym, it takes like $50. That would be okay if you could save for them over a couple of fights, but you can’t because of the way the weekly training system works. Each week leading up to a fight you can train one aspect of your boxer. The problem is that each of these trainings costs between $20-$30. There are two free training options, one is resting and one is running. The issue is that you can’t rest two weeks in a row or you’ll lose existing stats. So you’re discouraged from doing that. If you just decide to run, you always lose weight, which is bad because you can come into a fight seriously underweight. So this means you basically need to alternate between training with cash and training a free training. So with an average of $100 per fight you basically can either: train one part of your gym and have $50 left, meaning you only have 5 weeks max between fights (free-$25-free-$25-free), OR you don’t level up your gym and never progress your gym. Either of these outcomes lead to situations where you’re constantly fighting boxers with better stats than you. If you get beat up, you then have 5 weeks to recover all your health, which is impossible and puts you in a position where you’re coming into the fight with less than full health, leading to more losses. This could all be fine, but then the boxing itself is extremely frustrating. There are tons of times where my boxer isn’t reactive to inputs despite me having full stamina. So if I’m fighting a boxer with better strength than me, there’s basically a 0% chance I’m winning that fight. I have to hit them like 2x as much as they hit me, and even if I do that perfectly, there’s not enough time to score a knockdown before a round is over. All of this means you’d need to pay for more cash if you really want to play the game effectively. I’d rather pay once and have a fair game than need to constantly shell out cash for in game money, so this is a delete for me.

I have to pay premium mode while using any mode other than being a fighter to play for longer than an in game year. This is such BS, I’m stuck to only one mode. Yall suck