RBI Baseball 21

I know your comment is old; but, I just now came across it while searching Reddit trying to see if this game's issues were the fault of my phone or the fault of the developers. I have just asked for and received a refund for "RBI 21' — Android from Google. It's currently on "permanent price drop" at $3.99 + tax in the Play Store and for me it's not even worth that much. To its credit; no micro-transactions, even on "low graphics" it looks good, and the pitching interface is nice. The thing that killed it is an inexplicable delay/lag between hitting the bat button and the player actually swinging. If you've ever played the PSP port of "MVP Baseball 05", it's like that but much worse. You have to hit "swing" almost as soon as it leaves the pitcher's hand or else your bat won't even be moving when the ball crosses the plate. I managed to hit pretty well but it was all dumb luck and bad Pirate pitching putting fastballs right down Broadway. There's no strategy here; you can't watch where the ball is going, you have to hack at everything. You can go into Settings and slow down the pitch speed to compensate a bit for the lag, but that's not ideal either. My phone has the Snapdragon 632 processor, which isn't a powerhouse, but it runs the rest of the game smooth enough, so I don't know if it's partly to blame or if it's the developers of the game who are at fault.

Did you end up buying this game and, if so, have you experienced the swing lagging too?

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