Over in the Diamond Dynasty card collection mode, things are a bit friendlier this year.
Additionally, its momentum system that makes your team play better or worse based on your performance is still great and leads to some exciting comebacks. March to October mode isn’t too much different this year than last, but it still lets you take the reins of your team of choice and participate in vignettes where your decision as a pinch hitter can change the dynamic of a ballgame.
The list of modes hasn’t gotten any longer this year and pretty much everything is carried over from MLB The Show 20, but there are a handful of notable improvements.
When it comes to content, there is still no baseball simulator on the planet that is as attentive to its teams and rosters, as meticulous with the momentum of its on-field baseball simulation, or as awash with diverse and interesting gameplay modes as MLB The Show. This is buried in the Diamond Dynasty menus, and it heavily encourages you to engage with those systems instead of giving you the best results by sticking solely to Road to the Show mode like in MLB The Show 20. “There's also a potential downside for diehard Road to the Show fans in that because of this year’s broader focus on Diamond Dynasty interweaving into each of the other modes, the best way to progress in Road to the Show is no longer directly by playing in that mode, but rather through Programs, which is basically like a Battle Pass from a game like Fortnite or Destiny 2, where you complete daily objectives to essentially level up and earn rewards. Given how insubstantial the changes are to the mechanics of how characters work in MLB The Show 21 this is surprising – I can’t imagine what’s so different about this year’s version that would prevent a feature that’s carried over for years. The bummer here is that you can no longer move your save file forward from previous games in the series, meaning you need to start fresh.
Gabriel Moss, MaScore: 8 Read the full MLB The Show 20 Review Another nice touch is that when you take your custom Road to the Show player into Diamond Dynasty or Franchise mode you can finally pair them with your own custom teams. That said, those who haven’t picked up an MLB The Show since 17 or 18 will absolutely find that MLB The Show 20 is the best place to pick the series back up. But even with the excellent new Showdown mode, longtime fans may be just a little turned off by the lack of big new changes. Developer Sony San Diego has tweaked and tightened everything that was presented in MLB The Show 19, and as a result, playing baseball on a console has never been this fluid. In what feels like a minor but noticeable update, MLB The Show 20 doesn’t break what wasn’t broken.
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