the game that was supposed to end woke ends up being one of the most neutral and directionless games ive played in a long time

I am impressed for a couple of reasons..one is that there is basically no story or real art design so much so that it’s actually kind of awesome..this thing is smoother than a marvel movie

Second is that the combat rocks..it is actually really fun…if you’re not engaging with platforming the way it plays is great lol it has a better parry than lies of p even w that weird delay

Also the music is fucking incredible but we knew that would prob be the case

I really liked this game and want to see another one w better movement and no platforming…the second half of its run really shined and there’s something here to chew on

Shift up is wild tho and I will miss calling this bbl sekiro

about halfway through at the time of this review

this is incredible...games that can make my wholly dumb ass feel smart are something i deeply cherish and appreciate...the puzzles in this game are fucking amazing (except for a couple of the shortcut logic puzzles which is why I dinged my score)

this has been my drink coffee and chip away at a game...my morning crossword...and ive already filled up like ten pages in a notebook that is increasingly looking more and more like a conspiracy board

this dev always surprises me...im excited to see how it ends

As Stephen from the into the aether pod said I also don’t think I can review something like this objectively

Ff7 was basically the first book I ever read lmao and def one of the first pieces of media I ever felt a real emotional attachment to

The story changed my life I mean I literally wanted to hurt sephiroth like he was a real person because of what he did to aerith

That being said I have lots of gripes w this game…float de chocobo made me want to buy a gun and the open worldness of it all felt so weird and half put together whenever I decided to engage w it

I think I would should have spent my time just mainlining the story and queens blood bc everything else just felt so ehhhh. I know some of the side quests had great pay offs and some were actually funny but there’s toooo much of this shit…give me advent children the game for christs sake

They almost lost me halfway in, but the story and the characters saved it completely…I also really enjoyed the end and thought it kind of rocked. I am fine w the kingdom hearts of it all.

The music and combat were also really fucking good..there’s so much to like here but you and I have to remind ourselves that this is the filler part of that story and this thing is essentially filler arc the game…but it’s reaaaallly fucking good lol

Never wrote a proper review for this

Style and writing are incredible..besides disco it’s one of the honest to god better written games I’ve come across…I love Max Payne and what remedy has done over the years but they never really nailed noir at least on the prose side…this game delivers on that for sure

It just needed to be tighter..the combat is too samey and despite it being a short game it feels kind of long…not sure what that means but overall I liked it a lot

Interested to see if they actually turn this into a competent film or whatever

played this back when it first released on ps5

beautiful game, some really competent combat but the open worldiness of it all really got in the way of its fun for me

also when that final island opened up and like 500 dots appeared on the map i had to go for a walk