There’s Definitely a Learning Curve
Jumping into Dissidia NT, one thing will quickly become clear: there’s a lot of learning to do. Even though it’s more streamlined than past games, NT is still incredibly complex and the fact that there’s six characters in each match can make it hard to follow everything going on. Matches are fast and furious, and there’s so much going on at one time that it feels immediately overwhelming. It certainly doesn’t help that the tutorials in the game are genuinely terrible at teaching you things. Each tutorial is pages of text telling you what to do. The biggest problem here is that it doesn’t give you button prompts or anything once you’re in control of the character in a tutorial. This is a crucial mistake as you don’t have a link between performing that button combo and your character performing the action onscreen. It’d be much more effective to remember if you could see these things at the same time as opposed to having to read through pages of text to remember everything you just read.
Still, you can learn everything in Dissidia NT on your own. As someone that played hundreds of hours of the past two Dissidia games, it still took me a good 5-6 hours of playing NT before I really felt comfortable with everything. I learned movesets and button combos quickly, but it really took a while to get used to the 3vs3 matches. I can’t overstate how hectic things can get, especially when a summon enters the fray. You constantly have to make an effort to watch what’s going on with your teammates, where your life stock and summon bar is at, and who’s attacking you. Most importantly, don’t get discouraged if you pick up Dissidia NT or try out the beta and find yourself overwhelmed. Just stick with it and you’ll learn the ropes before long.
