Super fuckin cool, feels so good, great everything all around. Story’s kind of out there, but I have literally never seen any mech fiction that is down to earth in my entire life, at least it’s nifty.

Gotta finish it three times though, like there’s no point picking it up if you don’t. I almost didn’t, glad I ended up doing it though. Very worth it and the next two playthroughs are extremely quick with the upgrades you get and once you figure out there’s no point using anything but shotguns lmao. 100% the most must-play game I’ve played that’s come out in the past couple years. The only reason it’s not perfect to me is the three playthrough thing cause you have to replay a lotta missions and I felt like I was grinding in Dragon Quest, but that’s pretty much my only complaint.

Also my buddy Rusty is best boy and Carla is best girl and I will take no arguments.

Gonna keep it short, I enjoy this game, it is probably the most “Final Fantasy” Final Fantasy, almost to the point of parody at points, which is great. Combat is vastly improved from XV and VIIR, story is great and lush, pacing is good (act 3 kinda chugs along a bit but no one’s perfect), and I like a lot of the characters and they’re given enough depth for me, especially if you get into reading the lore resources they give you. Major major major problem with this game that makes it impossible to recommend to people, has a pretty on-the-nose SA scene that does essentially nothing to the plot other than to be like “dang rough world out there!” which is just not enough for me to justify it being in there, and it left a bad taste in my mouth for a while. Couldn’t imagine telling someone to play this game with a huge scene so artistically embarrassing, and this is coming from a guy who is a complete moron. Really disappointing because I liked this game a lot, but them’s the breaks I guess.