strange jouney would be a solid game 7 but its gameplay makes me have to give a lower rating the game's story is nothing special it is incredibly dated the classic humans are bad bla bla the game only has practically 3 relevant characters all with a very direct personality that stays the same from beginning to end only getting more extreme the gamplay is standard for past and future SMTs the encounter rate is very high but nothing that destroys the game but the reason for the low rating is only 1 the game is a maze every map is an endless maze with warps that put you in random places on the map or holes that make you lose hours of progress on the map. I can say for sure that 80% of the time in this game you don't spend grinding or with bosses you spend walking through the gigantic map of this game without any direction looking for an item that is in some random place on this map if you like mazes this game is for you but if you like spending more time actually playing the game instead of wandering aimlessly around the map I would pass this game