My favorite game in the series up to this point.
I was really involved in the story for once (the japanese intro helped a lot haha), loved the themes explored. That change of tone (vacation vibe, casual slice of life quests, spending time with the kids) felt great, and I love the overall mood of those early hours roaming through Ryukyu. I really enjoyed some particular sidequests, such as the murder mystery or the whole reaper storyline. Also Rikiya my beloved.
I've heard of people having a problem with the gameplay in this opus, but I didn't see it (I guess it's because I've never been necessarily fan of the combat system).
The pacing of game felt a bit off because of the sidequests, I think they give you access to too many at once, and I have this problem of wanting to see everything there is to see so I make sure to do every quest possible before following the main mission ...
Also as I've played the Kiwamis before, and not the original first two games, I now see how the remakes were a bit lazy in some parts. The passer-by NPCs seemed to have much more diversity, and they didn't really took the time to rebuild Kamurocho in the way it was supposed to look at the time of the game.

I really really loved the exploration in there, although the world might actually be TOO big; there were multiple times were I got bored of the game and stopped playing for a few weeks. I especially loved the big dungeons like Stormveil Castle, Raya Lucaria, or Miquella's Haligtree.
I played the whole game with sword/shield and I had fun, even more at some endgame bosses like Mohg, Malenia, or Radagon; But I think I still prefer Sekiro's gameplay, which is the only other FromSoft game I've played. I get the appeal of letting the player choose their own build and style, but I often feel overwhelmed when there's many options like classes, weapons, skills ...
While the world is beautiful and feels carefully handcrafted, it still suffers from classic openworld problems : having the same points of interest copypasted multiple times with slight variations and scattered across the map, fighting the same ten minibosses in catacombs and caves ...
Speaking of openworld, I don't know if this is a hot take or not but I feel like it's really not perfect for these kinds of games with hard bosses with patterns to learn. I thought a lot about the balancing of the game during my playthrough : I never farmed EXP, but there was a whole part of the game where I was clearly overpowered. And when the game became hard again, I kept wondering whenever I struggled against a boss if I needed to just get good or if I was literally underpowered. These things don't really happen in a more linear game.
Overall I really really enjoyed this game, but reading about this actually being a revolution, I just don't see it. It's """"just"""" a very great game to me

Gameplay is good, and character animations are very smooth and polished. I was really not digging the art direction and chara-design at first, but I got used to it, there are a few characters that I find pretty.
Other than that, the story and characters are just very uninteresting to me. I straight-up hate the fact that you're playing as this Divine being, you just can't develop a proper casual relationship with the other characters. I dropped the game because I believe I met all the characters, and with no story to keep me engaged I didn't feel the need to play more after around 18 chapters or something. (Also I decided to play in classic / hard and I guess that's just not for me haha)
It's funny because after playing Three Houses I wanted a story structure more like Awakening : going on an adventure, travelling the world and recruiting new characters on every chapter. But now I realize that the 3H structure makes for deeper bonds between you and the characters.

( Didn't know where to add this but felt the need to mention it : the black girl being called "Misutira" in japanese, really; and the desert kingdom being full of colored NPCs yet amongst the 7 recruitables characters in here, 5 are white. Put a little more effort into this please )

The more I think about this game, the more I love it and realize how unique it is.
Such an amazing feeling exploring this solar system, contemplating the infinite dark space with the beautiful score playing. So satisfying to unravel the mysteries and to understand what you need to do, especially when you need to be a little bold. There's a big sense of cohesion in this whole game.
The ending is really powerful and you can really feel that you're witnessing something big.
It's not my personnal favorite game of all time, yet I feel like it might the best game ever made, if that makes sense.

As for Echoes of the Eye, while it didn't feel that connected to the rest of the game, and I thought it was way harder both in its puzzles and just mechanically ; I still really enjoyed it, adds an interesting scenario, and the art direction is just fantastic.

I was very scared of playing this because I knew it has a lot of text and a crazy big skill tree.
First day ingame was horrible, I kept making bad decisions and throws and even got a game-over. Also the game talks about politics in a deep and serious way so I kinda felt like a kid in an adult game haha. I honestly thought I would just abandon it but at the end of the first day there's this discussion you have with Kitsuragi and he's being very nice and comprehensive and it put me in a good mood; So I just decided to go with the fact that I'm playing a pretty bad cop and continue with the game.
In the end I really liked it, beautiful art direction and visuals, I loved discovering more about the world. Tho I still probably didn't really understood all the themes and ideas of this game ...