On February 17, popular YouTuber Fuzzy released a video demonstrating his experience with theMLB The Show 22tech demo, giving baseball fans an in-depth look at some features in the upcoming game. Hilariously, Fuzzy makes it his mission to join in on the adventure to find all the bugs withinMLB The Show 22, something one would expect to discover an ample amount of in a tech demo.
The tech demo was released this past Thursday and will extend to February 23, allowing players todownload the multiplatformMLB The Show 22for free while reporting on anything that requires fixing before its official release in April. Fuzzy, who has made his name known in the baseball gaming community with over 360,000 followers on YouTube, delivered his own experience in a video lasting nearly 12 minutes.
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Fuzzy opened up his experience by showing off the brand-new pack animation, highlighting the diamond-shaped detail in the cards' background and the explosive animations as players open their packs. Viewers also gained insight on how the cards will look, while the featured walk-out animation was not seen as it is currently not in the game. In the Battle Royale Draft mode seen at the three-minute mark, fans see how players will choose their team, selecting players by round while their overall ranking drops after each round. Fuzzy suggestsfocusing on a hitter first, while picking up a pitcher with good splitter and cutter pitches.
On the pitching side, one aspect that may interest some is the in-game win predictor. To the bottom right of the screen, there will be a blue dot by the teams' initials and, as the game progresses, the marker will fluctuate towards the side that the system is predicting will win. What players do with their strategy will dictate where the momentum meter will tip. Unfortunately, it appears the R2 spam had made its return, and Fuzzy wasted no time explaining how the glitch allows batters to mess with the pitcher’s timing on a pitch.
The good news is that the next couple of days will allow players to find glitches and exploits of this nature and report them directly to developer San Diego Studio, potentially hammering them out before the game’s release. Expectations are high withthe gamehitting the Nintendo Switch, the first time Switch users will experience the franchise. Depending on how the MLB approaches its current lock-out, this game could pave the way for baseball fans to have something to talk about while they wait for the league to reach a settlement. If not, the stoppage will have baseball fans glued to their consoles and competing with other players to battle it out for bragging rights in the digital sports world.
MLB The Show 22releases on April 5 for PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.
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