I feel like I’m going crazy because every review l’ve seen of this game has done nothing but praise it to high heaven. So far, nothing about this game feels all that original or fun.
The combat is incredibly dull and repetitive. Once you’ve fought the first enemy, you’ve fought them all. Just spam R1 and your different skills, juggle, dodge, and if you ever get low you can always just use items (which the game constantly throws at you, of course). Even on the hardest difficulty, the combat itself is pretty braindead, the enemies are just huge HP sponges.
The story and characters are fine… but again, nothing I haven’t seen a dozen times before. I was at least expecting the slow-burn relationship between Iron Mask and Shionne to keep me engaged, but even that completely falls flat for me. Their “dislike” for one another is so forced; for every scene you get of them showing tolerance and even appreciation for another, literally the next scene will have them going “yeah we’re never going to be friends” because the writers forgot that this is a 60 hour game and they can’t have them getting close too soon. I found myself laughing at how often the writers feel the need to remind you that they definitely don’t like each other.
Not to mention that the narrative in general is so repetitive. Every dialogue scene just talks about the same five things. Iron Mask has amnesia, Shionne is a tsundere who likes to eat, there are 5 lords to defeat, yadayadayada. Once I got to the snow area and found myself pressing X through the cutscenes, I knew my time with this one was coming to a close.
I don’t intend to sound upset or angry, but I feel like I got totally ripped off and I bought this on sale. I’m just a bit disappointed. Should I grind through it until (if) it gets good or just go with my gut and move onto something else? And did anyone else feel similarly about this one?