Hunter x Hunter: Nen Impact Reviews
Hunter x Hunter: Nen Impact is a bit of a mess, despite some fun being present throughout. If there were better visuals, more content, and less exploitable gameplay, it would be a blast to play casually, but what’s present is simply a bit too busted to really get into.
Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact felt like an experiment in a few ways. For me personally, it was a chance to just play a fighting game based on an anime I had no history with, going in just on the basis that it was in-part an Eighting jam. Unfortunately, I had a miserable time with this game. It’s an awkward to play, bland offering with poor netcode and a bare bones single-player experience. On the other side, it seems like the developers experimented to see if a low-budget fighting game could succeed using a popular IP and the growing popularity of tag fighters. In the end though, I feel like this game is liable to be almost instantly forgotten by both the fighting game community and Hunter x Hunter fans. Bushiroad Games have sadly added another stinker to Eighting’s inconsistent past, and certainly made this brawler think twice before I give the benefit of the doubt.
Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact might not be a looker and would be laughed out the door for more lore-focused anime games, but it manages to just about come around as soon as you sit down to play it.
Hunter x Hunter: Nen Impact is, at its core, a phenomenal fighting game. The fighting system is near-perfect, and easily stands beside the best triple-A modern fighters.
Some of this would be forgivable if the game was being flogged at a budget price, but it’s pretty expensive for what you get.
An honest but limited attempt to bring Hunter x Hunter into the world of fighting games, which, while not a complete failure, lacks the elements necessary to stand out in a saturated and competitive market where technical excellence has become a fundamental prerequisite.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact has several good ideas, but very little follow through in catering to diehard fighting game players, new players unfamiliar with the tag-fighter subgenre, or even folks unfamiliar with the franchise. It's fun yet fluid fighter, don't get me wrong; only time will tell if it reaches a more fulfilling state in the future.
Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact doesn't really value the rich material it adapts, resulting in limited narrative structures and mediocre visuals, but the traditional 2D gameplay and accessible controls, even without any creative innovation, make the experience fun enough to give it a try.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Hunter x Hunter Nen x Impact is a fast-paced and accessible 2.5D 3v3 fighting game that fans of the franchise in particular might want to check out. Well, as long as they're happy either playing with friends locally or digging into its single-player modes. When it comes to matchmaking, it can be hard to find matches, and when you do, there can be issues that spoil the fun.
HUNTER×HUNTER NEN×IMPACT is fun when it works, but its lack of content, polish, and dysfunctional online make it a hard sell, especially at its price point.
Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact is an accessible and highly entertaining 2D fighting game, but as a product, it suffers from an alarming lack of content and passion for the license.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Once you get over the initial shortcomings, Hunter x Hunter fans will find plenty to like about Nen x Impact, which clearly has a reverence for the source material.
Overall, Hunter x Hunter: Nen Impact is not a terrible game. It has a fair bit of content, responsive controls, decent gameplay, and is, in general, a passable fighting game. That said, with its horrible online, terrible and unbalanced roster, the atrocious Story Mode, and its overinflated price tag, it’s not really a game I can recommend to anyone. If you’re a really big fan of fighting games and this game goes on a deep discount, it might be worth checking out. Otherwise, it’s best to steer clear of this game, move on, and never look back.
This game simply disappoints. Its story mode is shallow and the single-player modes lack depth. The combat system is—despite its simplicity—promising, but it suffers from a serious imbalance between characters and mechanics like the Rush Combo, which easily allows for automatic combos, kills the player's motivation to experiment with more complex mechanics.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
HUNTER x HUNTER NEN x IMPACT struggles to find the fun. While its core gameplay concepts feel like a great framework for intense battles, the lack of balancing sucks the joy out of its 3v3 fights.
Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact is the series' first globally released game and brings fun 3v3 gameplay with strong presentation and solid training tools. However, it's held back by questionable design choices like awkward offline modes, a lack of motion inputs, an 8-button control scheme not friendly to arcade stick/hitbox users, and no cross-play. It's completely out of step with modern fighting game standards, and while the game does have potential, it needs major updates to fully satisfy both casual fans and competitive players.
Overall, Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact presents a promising foundation. Its visual style is faithful to the original work, the controls are accessible, and the combat system is entertaining, especially for those who dedicate themselves to exploring every nuance and developing their own playstyle. However, the experience is compromised by a poorly structured story mode, unrewarding extra modes, and a limited character selection, especially considering the vast gallery of the Hunter x Hunter universe. Furthermore, the difficulty of finding online matches, exacerbated by the lack of crossplay, further limits the title's appeal. In its current state, it's difficult to recommend, whether for players seeking a competitive fighting game or for anime fans looking for a worthy adaptation of Yoshihiro Togashi's work.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact has potential in its gameplay, and it's possible to have fun with the freedom of its combo system and how distinct the characters are from one another. However, fighting games need an exciting presentation to keep players engaged. Add to that the technical issues, lack of content, limited character roster, problematic online, and the extremely high price, and we end up with one of the most disappointing fighting games of this generation.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Hunter × Hunter: Nen × Impact shows glimmers of potential with its unique character mechanics, but its shallow content, small roster, and brief story mode leave it far behind genre heavyweights - making it a modest pick for diehard fans, but a hard pass for fighting game enthusiasts.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
If all you’re looking for is a quick arcadey game based on Hunter x Hunter, then sure, I guess Hunter × Hunter: Nen × Impact is exactly what you’ve been waiting for. Technically speaking, it’s a sound game. It looks great, runs smoothly, it’s got some decent voice acting, and the controls are decent. What hurts is that the game is way too expensive for what little it offers in terms of modes and its current fighting roster.