Parents' Guide to RWBY: Grimm Eclipse

This co-op adventure manages to capture the spirit of the show while also being loads of fun to play with friends, even if it's a little short. So what's the best way to deal with crazed creatures bent on your destruction? As the Beatles once suggested, you get by with a little help from your friends. RWBY: Grimm Eclipse is a great co-op game for teaming up with friends and taking on the bad guys. Despite the game's sometimes frustrating difficulty, there's just something fun about running around with your buddies, pulling off cool teamwork moves, and covering each other's backs that puts RWBY a step above your basic hack-and-slash game. It could use some better tutorials to help newcomers figure out things like counters, charge attacks, and combo moves, but just like the show on which the game is based, it's not long before you start to learn your strengths and what you can contribute to the fight.

Whether you're playing with friends or trying to tackle the Grimm solo, RWBY: Grimm Eclipse is a treat. The game's style mimics the look and feel of the series perfectly. In a lot of ways, it feels like you're playing an episode of the show, which makes sense when you realize that the writers contributed to the story and it's meant to fit within the overall RWBY universe. There are a few moments that feel sort of like dead space between events and battles, but those are fairly sparse. It's also not the meatiest game, as you can probably power your way through it from start to finish in only a few hours. Still, when you get a good group together, you can't help but keep coming back for more.