Abyss fiction that's only carried by Tsuruno, Hanawa and Akame 4 chapters and then the ending hits the feels like a truck which was the only good part of the game, I hate the Dragon Engine and I didn't use the gadgets at all, I only did the Kaito substory because I don't care about the game enough, the only minigame I did was play Hanafuda/Koi Koi and even that was more enjoyable than trying to get through this game
Also please stop the Pocket Circuit pandering
Definitely a game they did in 6 months

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Also finished the demo a day after, peakest of fictions, GOTY

I only finished Chapter 10 but damn I've been dragging this too much to do the actual post game
I loved the game but I still prefer 2's combat system and specially the Dream Model fucking sucks, I don't really like the pistol thing and it was miles less hype-y than Zeroshiki
The feature-creep was awful but I enjoyed it much more than 2's where I was burnt out after 20 hours but I raked 70 here
I audibly screamed when I went 5 chapters without Key Quests and then after the protagonists join they reintroduced them again
I was disappointed they shafted Katie even though she was there and was even a Yokai but even though they would've been written exactly the same, I would've liked her better than Nate in her relationships with Mack and Inaho, I think it just fits better
And well, obviously my eternal fight with the series is that it never should have been localized because it loses its cultural roots so I played Sukiyaki instead of the international release

I'd like to play 4 but it kinda saddens me they Dexited in Yokai Watch after the beautiful plethora of Yokai 3 has but well

I didn't really expect anything and didn't get much in return, Carmine was actually really nice considering many people were trash talking her during launch and Kieran was new generation Nagito Komaeda so I wasn't too big on him
Didn't have much to say about the storyline itself but I will say I loved the theme it had and the atmosphere being countryside Japan makes me hard to hate it, also being a chanoyu practitioner having Sinistcha/Poltchageist literally exist was like a fever dream and it will always go down as one of my favorite Pokemon for what it represents


Just okay, I had to play the base game for this so L but I guess it wasn't as disastrous as it could've been

At first I was really turned off by the gameplay because it felt like everything I liked Metal Gear for not being (a piss filter shooter-like game) and it felt like it tried to adjust itself to people who just bought the PS3 and didn't have any other game to play so they had to make a game anyone in that era could enjoy
And I feel like the gameplay is a disaster because I couldn't really enjoy it after Act 2 where I was having fun sniping everyone vs Act 5's ship part where I had to fight Gekkos

But as someone getting into the series and having played all the others I really liked the final game of the saga aspect of it, having all sorts of characters return was refreshing and seeing them full body with the new models felt strange at first but I really digged it afterwards, also the story honestly had its stones like the Snakehound shit that was just plot device and things like the absolute bitch that is Naomi but I was pretty much glued to the screen at many moments

All in all I still like the other three better but this one was good too

I have an absolute and raging trauma with jungle animals, so the moment I knew not only did I have to see them, but I also had to HUNT them I knew I wasn't going to enjoy it, and I was just going to watch it on YouTube to not interact with the crocodiles (which I absolutely hate and am grossed out by) and snakes (same thing, I despise them) but I took my time and put a bullet in all of them and damn, this game is really good

I think this ending is much better than MGS2's but the progression was a little bit flat, especially considering the stealth part is harder with the Camo Index (which I enjoyed I guess but I'm okay with it not returning at all) and pretty much it's not a game I enjoy playing but the story is magnificent and I doubt there's a villain better than The Boss ever