I am confused on why this game is so praised on this site. Thats not to say that its bad but it not amazing either. It mostly just feels like a shell of better games like DMC, kingdom hearts and souls. The combat is not as refined, the bosses aren't nearly as interesting, the ost is good but not as good as the previously named games. On top of the fact that this game came out really buggy. I actually played DMC 5 again just because of this game, and when I came back, I tried to do Nero air combos forgetting that I'm not playing the better game.
But to get into what I don't like about particularly in this game, I'll first talk about the combat. It is not the worst thing ever, but it certainly has its issues. Adol is so god damn fast, like too fast for most enemies to keep up with. I barely ever needed to dodge or parry because you can get in and out of combat so fast. Bosses and enemies need to be sped up or having Elden Ring tracking to really do anything. There's also aerial combat. It's not good. You have launchers and stuff but nothing to really stay in air with besides your basic mash combo. Most things also can't be launched so it's a really irrelevant part of combat. The game has this weapon triangle system where you have to use certain characters to do any real damage to monsters. Unsurprisingly, I don't like this feature either. I hate being forced to use the characters i don't enjoy using. For example, Sahad is big and slow and I think he sucks fat ass, but a lot of enemies need a smash type character to do damage to them. Imagine DMC but Dante sometimes has to use the guitar, and then he has to use the fists. Just let me use the character I want, this adds unnecessary mechanics into the game that take away from the experience. In my opinion, its better to be inclusive rather than exclusive, and in this case, its preventing me from enjoying the game as much. The bosses range from standard to below average but never anything too frustrating. Most bosses are big monster things, and as we know, the best bosses in action games are always the humanoid ones. Which saddens me because there's few in this game.
I won't say too much about the story as I don't want to go into spoiler territory. I will say though, that chapters 1 and 2 are so fucking boring. Nothing interesting happens at all until the very end of chapter 2, until then just skip all the cutscenes. The game spends way too long talking about the most boring shit possible in an attempt to set up the events of the game. Chapters 1 and 2 are filters for a good chunk of players, which almost included me. Chapter 3 is where the game starts to actually get good and do its thing.
The ost bangs, kinda. A lot of the songs are great, but some are just boring to listen too. In a way, it's like FF7 where most the songs are great and then some songs are just droning and irritating. I will never say that these ys games have a bad soundtrack, ys 1 had a crazy ost that did not fit at all but was still great.
Overall though, I just feel like I'm playing a shadow of better games. Given, I know Nihon Falcom aren't rolling in the dough enough to make their games like square and capcom do. Nevertheless though, I still don't enjoy this game nearly as much as most other actions games or rpgs that I have played. Also the frame drops on the vita version is fucking wild, game drops from 30 to 24 and back constantly and sometimes to like 10 frames.
But to get into what I don't like about particularly in this game, I'll first talk about the combat. It is not the worst thing ever, but it certainly has its issues. Adol is so god damn fast, like too fast for most enemies to keep up with. I barely ever needed to dodge or parry because you can get in and out of combat so fast. Bosses and enemies need to be sped up or having Elden Ring tracking to really do anything. There's also aerial combat. It's not good. You have launchers and stuff but nothing to really stay in air with besides your basic mash combo. Most things also can't be launched so it's a really irrelevant part of combat. The game has this weapon triangle system where you have to use certain characters to do any real damage to monsters. Unsurprisingly, I don't like this feature either. I hate being forced to use the characters i don't enjoy using. For example, Sahad is big and slow and I think he sucks fat ass, but a lot of enemies need a smash type character to do damage to them. Imagine DMC but Dante sometimes has to use the guitar, and then he has to use the fists. Just let me use the character I want, this adds unnecessary mechanics into the game that take away from the experience. In my opinion, its better to be inclusive rather than exclusive, and in this case, its preventing me from enjoying the game as much. The bosses range from standard to below average but never anything too frustrating. Most bosses are big monster things, and as we know, the best bosses in action games are always the humanoid ones. Which saddens me because there's few in this game.
I won't say too much about the story as I don't want to go into spoiler territory. I will say though, that chapters 1 and 2 are so fucking boring. Nothing interesting happens at all until the very end of chapter 2, until then just skip all the cutscenes. The game spends way too long talking about the most boring shit possible in an attempt to set up the events of the game. Chapters 1 and 2 are filters for a good chunk of players, which almost included me. Chapter 3 is where the game starts to actually get good and do its thing.
The ost bangs, kinda. A lot of the songs are great, but some are just boring to listen too. In a way, it's like FF7 where most the songs are great and then some songs are just droning and irritating. I will never say that these ys games have a bad soundtrack, ys 1 had a crazy ost that did not fit at all but was still great.
Overall though, I just feel like I'm playing a shadow of better games. Given, I know Nihon Falcom aren't rolling in the dough enough to make their games like square and capcom do. Nevertheless though, I still don't enjoy this game nearly as much as most other actions games or rpgs that I have played. Also the frame drops on the vita version is fucking wild, game drops from 30 to 24 and back constantly and sometimes to like 10 frames.