User blog comment:Jkphantom9/News from Anime Expo/@comment-4023909-20170704031307/@comment-25936766-20170705003758

Then pretty much everyone else is an idiot. An "everyone else" that I seriously question since I've never heard anyone call Grimm Eclipse "a MOBA(-like game)". Probably because if someone knows the term MOBA, they at least have some vague impression of one, an impression that is nothing like Grimm Eclipse.

Saying it's like one due to "Skill Trees" is cheap. Skill Trees are not even common in MOBAs to begin with. Now, the beta...or alpha, of Grimm Eclipse, that was more like a MOBA. Still not a MOBA, but unlike in the actual release, everyone had 3 special attacks, which is rather akin to the standard "3 Specials + 1 Ultimate" present in multiple MOBAs.

Now, everyone only has a charged attack, a fancy ranged-combo finisher, and an "Ultimate", which is just an AoE fancy special attack (except Jaune's "turn men into Gods"), making it stop being like a MOBA and making it more of a Hack-and-Slash.

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But yeah, its most definitely not a fighting game. It's even less a fighting game than a MOBA, actually.