Is This Game Worth It?

[MYBUTT]

I can handle some jank, and I do think a game like this needs all the support they can get for how niche it is, and the combat looks interesting. But the discount for it is pretty small, and I’m not sure if the price is worth it, and I already spent nearly 50$ at the beginning of the month for Judgement and Lost Judgment.

[Bonnie Gruesome]

Better than expected, I was on the fence since I watched a long play last night, the first half hour I was doubting but the more I watched the more it grew on me, it’s very unique, rough yea but the devs said they’re still working on it so let’s give them a chance. I got it on ps5 and it’s gorgeous so far.

[ko]

I was on the fence, but at €45 I took the plunge and I am not disappointed. I liked the game a lot. If you're into quirky and slightly janky Japanese games then I think you will enjoy this game.

It's not even that janky and I didn't encounter any bugs. The game plays great and it is quite polished overall. The jank is more of a budget thing, but that also has its charm. There's not a lot of voiced dialogue in this game, so most dialogue sequences between missions are just text accompanied with a dream-like background montage and some mumbling. It doesn't scream "money", but it works well for this game.

There's a handful of really nice animated sequences throughout the game where they spent a little more of their budget.

Combat is really fun and you get a lot of options when you get further into the game.

Music is great. Yamaoka did what he does best, once again.

(I think I'll just post the above as my Steam review)

[Skeeka]

When I looked at footage and reviews I was going back and forth between buying and not buying, thinking it could be either full on trash or endearing janky trash.

It turned out to be, like, legit pretty good actually even if you can feel the game's budget running out everywhere.

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For the first six or seven hours I thought the game deserved at least a full point higher than the critical average, but after beating it?
Not so much.

About halfway through the game you've seen pretty much everything the game has to offer but it just keeps going and going. And the plot is borderline nonsensical on top of it.

It really feels like the game intentionally wastes your time so often. "Go back to this same area you've been before, chase the same enemies you've been chasing, fight the same five enemies over and over and over again."

The character with the best ability in the game is just given to you with zero explanation after you had to unlock the others.

Unlocking the true ending requires you to go back and redo missions trying to keep civilians alive and doing that just gets you a few extra minutes of story.

And then it ends on a cliffhanger with very little actually resolved. If the gamer had been seven or eight hours long I think it would have been a lot better, but it's just so padded and it truly feels like they completely ran out of money because they use 25,000 $ / month to rent denuvo in to the game lmao

I love the premise and certain aspects of the execution here, but the incredibly amount of repetition, poor use of most of the cast, janky combat that starts to grate after a while, and lack of payoff in the story really disappointed me. AND ITS 50$ It's a 6.5 at best.

[MYBUTT]

Hmmm… I think I’ll wait til the price drops a bit, or there’s a much heavier discount.

[Bonnie Gruesome]

Originally posted by MYBUTT:

Hmmm… I think I’ll wait til the price drops a bit, or there’s a much heavier discount.

Well as it's a small company I decided to support them, the price will never come down and the game won't get better unless we support it.

[MYBUTT]

Originally posted by Bonnie Gruesome:

Originally posted by MYBUTT:

Hmmm… I think I’ll wait til the price drops a bit, or there’s a much heavier discount.

Well as it's a small company I decided to support them, the price will never come down and the game won't get better unless we support it.

I’m not sure about that

[maximumdensity]

I'm really liking it so far but I knew I would.. I also wanted to support the developer so I bought the physical version on PS5.. It came with nicer packaging, a physical art book and the OST on CD....

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Originally posted by Bonnie Gruesome:

Originally posted by MYBUTT:

Hmmm… I think I’ll wait til the price drops a bit, or there’s a much heavier discount.

Well as it's a small company I decided to support them, the price will never come down and the game won't get better unless we support it.

Small Company? use 25,000 $ on denuvo ? And Priced the game 50$ for ps2 style games ???

[Noblesse☮Oblige]

The worst part of the game is the 2 hours of tutorials.

There is some jank but nothing egregious and I don't regret spending the 50 bucks on it. The amount of times it stops you to tell you something or pulls control away from the player to tell you how a skill works in those first few hours will turn some players off, but once it stops doing that the game fun.

[ChubbiChibbai]

Just wait for a sale if the price feels too high. You will miss nothing by waiting and save money. It's good fun but have you already finished both Judgement games? Why not play them first?

[Bonnie Gruesome]

Originally posted by Noblesse☮Oblige:

The worst part of the game is the 2 hours of tutorials.

There is some jank but nothing egregious and I don't regret spending the 50 bucks on it. The amount of times it stops you to tell you something or pulls control away from the player to tell you how a skill works in those first few hours will turn some players off, but once it stops doing that the game fun.

not sure what game you played but it took me 15 mins to get thru the tutorial :/

[captainspaulding06]

Originally posted by Bonnie Gruesome:

Originally posted by Noblesse☮Oblige:

The worst part of the game is the 2 hours of tutorials.

There is some jank but nothing egregious and I don't regret spending the 50 bucks on it. The amount of times it stops you to tell you something or pulls control away from the player to tell you how a skill works in those first few hours will turn some players off, but once it stops doing that the game fun.

not sure what game you played but it took me 15 mins to get thru the tutorial :/

The tutorial is present during 2 or 3 hours, a lot of things are explained 3 or 4 times.
It's not just the tutorial at the beginning.

[Bonnie Gruesome]

Originally posted by captainspaulding06:

Originally posted by Bonnie Gruesome:

not sure what game you played but it took me 15 mins to get thru the tutorial :/

The tutorial is present during 2 or 3 hours, a lot of things are explained 3 or 4 times.
It's not just the tutorial at the beginning.

weird, I'm chasing Anita and no signs of a tutorial for a while *shrug*

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it starts of great but kinda falls apart in the end. too many annoying chasing missions and the meh curse mechanic really annoyed me. the sound of the bigger slitters kinda gets old after encoutering a few, but they surely made some bad decisions in the later part of the game.