A game very similar to Ys8 would make you think I’d love it the same, and I was hard on this game when I was first playing it because I didn’t find it as tightly knit as, but overall it’s not remotely a bad game despite my few actual gripes about it, which may be due to the fact I was playing this on switch instead of ps4 like the other games.
Things like how the movement felt and how the wall run ability felt kind of wonky and could be finicky when it wanted to work.
The matter is most of my issues with the game are more personal gripes and nitpicks, that I feel don’t matter that hard but I’ll get into them anyway because complaining is fun
The game has a similar gameplay loop to 8 of doing sidequests for npcs and expanding your base with new characters, exploring, doing raid battles, then having a solo adventure at the end of the chapter with another character that then tied into the main plot.
The issue is I feel unlike 8 the base isn’t as fun because instead of being on a uninhabited island you are in a big city, and maybe I wish the gameplay reflected that a bit more but I also understand that falcoms budget and deadlines and 8s popularity are why they repeated things (thankfully X seems to be changing the formula again, which is nice after 4 games with the same party member system)
Each chapter is dedicated to one of the party members you get, which eventually they did grow on me but I felt like instead of naturally learning about the plot you kind of wait until the last 2 chapters for it to all be revealed, when characters clearly knew what was happening.
Don’t get me wrong though those last two chapters really bring the game home and despite maybe indifference towards most of the cast early on I warmed up to them. But compared to 8 where I felt their arcs were more solid, and the secondary main character of 8 basically carries the game.
I haven’t talked about the gameplay a whole lot because of its similarity to 8 almost everything good about that game is in this game. Just not as good imo
But even if you are new to the series it’s still a good solid game just not my favorite, but I can easily see people loving this game and maybe being someone’s favorite in the same way 8 is mine.
Things like how the movement felt and how the wall run ability felt kind of wonky and could be finicky when it wanted to work.
The matter is most of my issues with the game are more personal gripes and nitpicks, that I feel don’t matter that hard but I’ll get into them anyway because complaining is fun
The game has a similar gameplay loop to 8 of doing sidequests for npcs and expanding your base with new characters, exploring, doing raid battles, then having a solo adventure at the end of the chapter with another character that then tied into the main plot.
The issue is I feel unlike 8 the base isn’t as fun because instead of being on a uninhabited island you are in a big city, and maybe I wish the gameplay reflected that a bit more but I also understand that falcoms budget and deadlines and 8s popularity are why they repeated things (thankfully X seems to be changing the formula again, which is nice after 4 games with the same party member system)
Each chapter is dedicated to one of the party members you get, which eventually they did grow on me but I felt like instead of naturally learning about the plot you kind of wait until the last 2 chapters for it to all be revealed, when characters clearly knew what was happening.
Don’t get me wrong though those last two chapters really bring the game home and despite maybe indifference towards most of the cast early on I warmed up to them. But compared to 8 where I felt their arcs were more solid, and the secondary main character of 8 basically carries the game.
I haven’t talked about the gameplay a whole lot because of its similarity to 8 almost everything good about that game is in this game. Just not as good imo
But even if you are new to the series it’s still a good solid game just not my favorite, but I can easily see people loving this game and maybe being someone’s favorite in the same way 8 is mine.