Fire Pro Wrestling World - Entrance Craft DLC

TL:DR, I've willingly purchased this DLC at full price out of love and not out of common sense. Considering how much this DLC (and all the other FPWW dlc's) cost, for most people you don't true value for money. You could argue that most of the dlcs (entrance edit and promoter at least) should be part of the vanilla game (and I'd agree with that). However, Spike are trying to make money and probably know that most of those who bought the game are long time fans and bought the game anyway (despite the shortcomings of the vanilla game). Ultimately, this is the only game I play and I enjoy making my own edits/federations, so anything that Spike release for FPWW I will end up buying because I know I'll use it and my time won't be divided playing other games. It is annoying having to go back and revisit edits that I had deemed 'completed' because an new piece of dlc requires the edit be updated, but I'd rather have the dlc than not have it at all. Wait for the inevitable sale to get true value for money. I know I should have but I enjoy the game so I feel that paying full price helps Spike, so I cough up. If you enjoy the game and love making edits like myself then chances are you've already made up you mind and will get it now. If you're undecided and not fussed about edit creation then wait for the sale. The added venues are nice.

Pro: - A very flexible editor, you can make an interesting entrance with only a little effort but you can also go further and add more details like lighting, etc - You can have an entrance costume - You can set up the timing of your entrance Neutral: - A lot of people think the price is expensive but I don't mind supporting a niche product. A niche product relies on a small number of their hardcore fans Cons: - You're limited to those 5 actions that you set in your wrestler (1 entrance + 4 performance) - You can't follow up your performance with another performance. Only 1 performance is allowed at each spot. - When a wrestler enter the ring, normally they'll go to Left/Down post but in this editor you'll go to the Top Post which make you face the middle of the ring instead of the audience. And there is no option to make you go to the other post.

So much potential in this add-on but its so limited. Adding firework types, length and location with multiple use would be awesome. Light control is also extremely limited. Allowing for fade or spotlight rather than just colour could be a great addition. Overall not worth the money.

Wildly overpriced... But it's also a brand new mode that's never been in Fire Pro before and it allows ridiculous amount of fine tweaking. It's up to you whether that's worth the $20.

For people with e-feds, this is great! While it's unfortunate that there aren't any basic options for team entrance, the singles entrance really adds some individuality to the edits. You can custom the color of fireworks, spotlights on the crowd, the base arena lighting (which can alternate between two colors, or be fixed on one color), the lasers. You can change the speed of these elements. There are several speeds an edit can make their way to the ring, from really slow to outright running. Plus a few more options for entering the ring. There's camera settings, also. Though they're more just zooming in and out. The new venues are great. I was kind of hoping the outdoor venue would be daytime, like the one in FPZ (or was it D?), but it's still cool. Would love to see a daytime, outdoor venue, in a future DLC or free update, whichever. I hope they tinker around with this a bit more, as I'd have liked to have seen a simple picture of the championship belt be featured, as the current champion makes their entrance. In fact, I'd have been happier with that. than with this method of "wearing belts to the ring". It's neat, but at some point you get tired of having to re-edit. It could have used some new parts, like hats, robes and such. Those would have been appropriate for this DLC. If your main interest is in playing the matches, you might not find this DLC worth the price. But if you have an e-fed and you want to expand the atmosphere, this DLC is really nice to have.

The new venues are pretty underwhelming. Team logos should be a base game feature, not in here. The belt thing is implemented in a really goofy and backwards way, I can't imagine ever spending a whole attire slot to manually edit a belt onto a dude AND creating a custom entrance just so he walks out with it. Too much work for something that really should/could be automated. I guess they're more edit parts but the way this game handles DLC costume parts and the workshop is already frustrating enough. Main reason for thumbs down is the control over "venue lighting and effects" is really weak, you can just sort of barely tint any given light and you have no control over brightness, so no chance of Kane/Glacier/Bray Wyatt style entrances with this. Like Fire Promoter just a very poorly done DLC and also like Fire Promoter I'm sure it'll never receive any meaningful patches. I'd be over the moon to be proven wrong. Oh yeah, also no team entrance craft, solo entrances only. This would have been a great time to implement real tag team entrances finally. Ugh.

When the cost of a DLC add-on is almost as expensive as the base game's original launch price from two years ago, it's easy to understand why Spike's newest "Entrance Craft" DLC isn't sitting well with a large portion of the Fire Pro audience. Other than the three new arenas (each with their own distinctive flair and visual improvements) most of the "new" content included in the Entrance Craft bundle feels stale and leftover. Content that (as other reviewers have already stated) should have been released years ago with the base game. - First up, the option to assign team/stable logos is back. A feature which has existed in previous Fire Pro entries dating back to the mid 90's. Seeing this feature added this far into development is head scratching to say the least. - The new edit pieces mostly consist of logos and belts based around Spike's fictional, in-game promotions. None of the belts can be removed or transferred between Wrestlers; serving as little more than an extra layer of clothing to be added to a Wrestler in edit mode. - Despite their prior involvement, belts from promotions such as New Japan or Stardom are nowhere to be found in the Entrance Craft bundle. - Any custom entrance made through Entrance Craft mode cannot be shared or downloaded through the Workshop. Custom entrances for tag teams are also non-existent, meaning every Wrestler has to enter the ring individually. If you're still interested in giving Entrance Craft a go, wait for the Steam Winter sale to hopefully see a dramatic, more-realistic price drop. Simply put, the content provided with the Entrance Craft DLC, does not warrant it's $20 price tag. Vote with your wallets, Fire Pro players.

Like most Fire Pro DLC, this is a mixed bag. Some baffling oversights but longtime fans will appreciate the content. Entrance Craft mode is simple but has enough options to satisfy. The main problems I see are that you can't set entrance themes through it and that there's no gamma setting for lighting. Entrance attire implementation is disappointing; you set one attire out of your four normal attires, instead of having a separate entrance attire for each normal attire. The appearance parts you get with the DLC have their pros and cons as well. Wearable belts are a very long overdue addition and to Spike's credit, there are parts to represent all 10 generic belts. To have wrestlers walk out with them is inconvenient, since you have to use the entrance attire system (workshop edits and defaults will have to be copied). Other appearance parts include a large assortment of logos for the SWA and generic Fire Promoter promotions. Oddly, not a single one is a front design. For front designs, there are 2 pieces to make jackets look better and a new shirt part. Promotion logos make their return from past games. You can set them by Promotion, Stable, or both simultaneously. They also appear on the wrestler nameplates. While a lot of logos look great like this, it'd still be nice to be able to replace the nameplates outright like with the mods. The three new arenas are good, with minimal caveats. The gym distinguishes itself well from the Korakuen stand-in by having visible walls, bright lighting, and uneven floor mats. The USA Grand Dome is aesthetically nice and works well as a PPV arena. I like the outdoor arena's neutral color palette, but it's annoying that its nighttime setting makes it look almost identical to an indoor arena. Unlike the other US arena, it isn't distinct in a way that justifies including it over some of the series's past arenas. I wouldn't recommend this at $20, it's priced this way because the developers know the core audience will buy it regardless. It's a DLC consisting entirely of good but superfluous additions, best suited for people who stream/record Fire Pro matches or people who never skip The Undertaker's entrance in WWE games. Everyone else should wait until it's 50% off.

For $20 I would expect this DLC to work for every wrestler in the game. It doesn't. Entrances work for everyone sure, but the biggest part of the DLC that was advertised was the ability to wear belts in entrances. Only CAWs you have personally made can do that because you have to edit an attire to have a title to wear. The belt parts are the same garbage parts we have for the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ titles in create-a-title. I have over 600 wrestlers I have to dupe if I want to use this overpriced ripoff DLC. Oh and if you were excited about logos you *have* to have this DLC. I mean this literally because the logos on workshop require this awful DLC so I can't even refund it. There is no way to excuse or defend this. These devs should have known better. I've bought literally every DLC for this game to support it but I really doubt I'll spend another dime on these devs. I don't do business with the incompetent.

Well.....I gotta be honest. I literally paid 19.99 for 3 more venues and the edit layers. Now the venues are nice, especially the local gym for use Puroresu fans....but not sure why something like this wasn't part of the the base game. The Entrance craft feature is needless and poorly done. You have to use your 4th attire, belts are just layers. Thats right, you winning a belt wont matter. You have to take them into editor and put the layers on them. Team Logos are cool but not sure why it's DLC.... So all in all theres just not 20 bucks worth here. I'm sorry but this is 5 dollar DLC at best.