Interesting premise, but got overshadowed by collabs, pee-pee poo-poo balance and the most dogshit financial decisions by Epic.

Don't kill the cringe part of yourself, kill the part that cringes.

Descend into insanity, immensely carried by experimentality and bravery of it, but actual substance is painfully overrated mess that is barely worth experiencing, mainly due to horrid(serviceable, but horrid) gameplay that might overshadow interesting story, that is nowhere near as good as people describe it and starts getting interesting only in last 1/10th of the game.

Stockholm syndrome might make you pretend that you didn't waste your time, but it didn't last long for me.

Don't expect anything nowhere near Drakengard 3, Nier Replicant and Automata. Just a weird pseudo-arthouse experience with few good ideas here and there.

(this is the 4th log lmfao, this game just can't leave my mind and it certainly makes Drakengard remarkable for that)

"Superhero story without supervillians"

That's probably the way I would describe my biggest problem with this game: Themes, but in particular, delivery of those.

Outside of "jrpg final God boss", all the villians are just... Actual people, that you could encounter in your own life. Hell, I too had a PE teacher that was glancing at highschoolers. The topics Persona 5 touches are real and serious, in vacuum you could say that the game might be the "darkest" out of all franchise.

But the game treats it in the most immature and lackluster way possible: you simply brainwash the villians and everything goes back to normal. It sucks. It's boring. It's superficial and fake, unlike the villians themselves.
The game asks you to rebel, to break the chains, to desire emancipation, yet it doesn't portray the struggle of the rebellion in meaningful way. You just get a magic wand to fix all your problems.

You could argue that "Palaces" are metaphorical portrayal of the struggle, but... In Persona 4 "shadow world" served as a battleground for the game's themes, while you and antagonists were +- on the same terms(the guy kills people via TV and has Persona, you save people via TV and have Persona). Palaces are just one-sided beating, you never deal with actual problem, you never really fight in real world, all the consequences barely leave the Metaverse. You don't find the evidence(which was done with Madarame and it was GOOD), you don't try find the blackmail material, you never protest, you never actually rebel.

It's physically impossible to take the game seriously that tells you to magically brainwash someone's mother instead of making her fix the relationship with her daughter.

Make the fuck up your mind, whether you want to tell a serious story about delicate subjects or an MCU knock-off.

What if we all just killed ourselves

We need more lonely middle-aged women as protagonists in videogames.

Wowsies, it's lonely here

It's a nice dlc, that portrays interesting part of Faerun!
Unfortunately narrative is painfully underwhelming, there's no party dynamic and dungeon design is extremely basic, yet... It's fun!

If you want more NWN2 gameplay and some openworld'ish exploration, then play it! If you manage multiplayer to work, then it' should be even better experince, because everything is better in co-op.

"Hey, let's design one of the worst weapons in hack-n-slash history, then make a dlc that doesn't let you switch it for something else!"

At least now I feel vindicated in killing that bitch

The Stockhold syndrome is real, the more you think about this game after beating it the more you begin to like it.

i played this shit on keyboard long before pc port was available with constant frame drops and freezes, yet it was still SO. FUCKING. GOOD.

i accidentally started this game instead of 999 because i thought it was the first one, won a coin toss and never touched it again

fuck my chungus life, i'm not reviewing this fucking game

destroyerofmid was right

beautiful, but painfully pretentious

it's been ages since i've played it, but the combat was some real fucking fun

interesting so far, but gameplay makes me want to kill myself dude, praying that i won't before i get my first ending at least