Cliffhanger Ending. Crap.

[Grug]

I liked the final boss gauntlet, but I was really hoping for some kind of resolution instead of "Wait for the DLC, sucker!"

Plus, what happened to the whole romance storyline? We saw the dream girl one time and then she never re-appears. We had more chemistry with Ruth or Dinamo or even Huey.

[Demian]

Same on me, man. I feel like i played demo again, full game for me was just - make all sub-quests in 1 hour, and 4 hours of grinding league, and thats with all game. I dont know how to name this feeling but game just feels incompleteed, there so much interesting things they can put in it, but they didn't do that

[Curiousfellow]

It's a deliberate subversion that you don't end up with anyone, given how the part with Ruth plays out.

You do meet the girl you bump boxes with, though, when you meet her again she's a hologram(dead).

I do agree that the plot feels lacking in resolution, though. Even if they want to save fluffy for a sequel, it would've been nice to have a faceoff with lion guy at least.

[Blastaz]

Originally posted by Curiousfellow:

It's a deliberate subversion that you don't end up with anyone, given how the part with Ruth plays out.

You do meet the girl you bump boxes with, though, when you meet her again she's a hologram(dead).

I do agree that the plot feels lacking in resolution, though. Even if they want to save fluffy for a sequel, it would've been nice to have a faceoff with lion guy at least.

Yeah it’s a clear subversion of the romance trope. Ruth settles down with your friend, your chance encounter is instantly fridged, and then the sultry mysterious woman on the phone turns out to be a car. You still get to ride her though…

[The Cystocot]

The last boss was...tedious to fight, but having access to every skill & the ability to freely reallocate your stats was cool & I had a blast trying out a bit of everything to get a taste of "the road not taken"(would've made for a cool neurotrainer/simulation you had access to throughout the game to build test/theorize, instead of being saved until the end-maybe as a future DLC/NG+ feature?)

Being liberated from TONUS in the last fight was nice, too, not a terrible alternative to stat decay, but it could get extremely annoying at times, especially during the surprise multi-opponent fights sprinkled throughout the game-having mastery of skills either reduce or remove TONUS costs permanently would've been awesome.

[Grug]

Originally posted by Curiousfellow:

It's a deliberate subversion that you don't end up with anyone, given how the part with Ruth plays out.

You do meet the girl you bump boxes with, though, when you meet her again she's a hologram(dead).

I do agree that the plot feels lacking in resolution, though. Even if they want to save fluffy for a sequel, it would've been nice to have a faceoff with lion guy at least.

I saw and appreciated the subversion with Ruth. But for box girl it's a completely custom cutscene with tons of "Falling in love" effects. I'd wonder why go through all the effort if it's going to be an anti-climax, especially since we don't know anything about her or why she died.

[Curiousfellow]

Originally posted by Grug:

I saw and appreciated the subversion with Ruth. But for box girl it's a completely custom cutscene with tons of "Falling in love" effects. I'd wonder why go through all the effort if it's going to be an anti-climax, especially since we don't know anything about her or why she died.

You see her get arrested by the feds, and then later you see her hologram. You know at this point that holograms are of dead people, though it's made more explicit in the finale. I like it, personally: Having the bad guys rob you of the happy love interest side-plot plays nicely into the dystopian theme.

[aarmosher]

i mean,, the premise of the game is the earth is destroyed and you're living in the last habitable city. is it absurd? yes, is it unplausible? yes. 🤣
and at the end, the machine is turned down, so what else can be done, but to ditch earth and go to live in other planet and fight some intergalactic tournaments 😎
just wish it won't take ages to release PC3..