I expected more from this. I feel very disappointed for expecting more from a Platinum game.
Positives: good enough battle system, interesting progression system, good Japanese style and everything works as it should.
Negatives: repetitive, repetitive, repetitive in every single way. The stages are basically move, small text cutscene, fight with multiple waves, more fights with multiple waves and repeat the same steps again. There is no platforming, no puzzles (except for maybe using your Yokai to get some items) and absolutely no variety with the levels. I’ve done 2 missions and the second one looks like the reverse of mission 1. You get about 10 fights at least with multiple yokai in them and multiple waves. I’d say you’re fighting around 30-50 yokai in each mission and you’re doing nothing else. Not only that, the monsters are health sponges. If the fights were quick, then things would have been different. And lastly, you’re not allowed to save your progress during a mission and continue later. You have to finish a mission which is too long and repetitive. If I could save and progress through the mission in smaller chunks, then I might have been able to slowly get through it and not burn myself out.
There is some serious problem to feel this way with the first mission. There is no creativity or fun at all when you have nothing but endless fights that are being forced on you (you can’t skip any of them). There are better ways to spend your time.
Positives: good enough battle system, interesting progression system, good Japanese style and everything works as it should.
Negatives: repetitive, repetitive, repetitive in every single way. The stages are basically move, small text cutscene, fight with multiple waves, more fights with multiple waves and repeat the same steps again. There is no platforming, no puzzles (except for maybe using your Yokai to get some items) and absolutely no variety with the levels. I’ve done 2 missions and the second one looks like the reverse of mission 1. You get about 10 fights at least with multiple yokai in them and multiple waves. I’d say you’re fighting around 30-50 yokai in each mission and you’re doing nothing else. Not only that, the monsters are health sponges. If the fights were quick, then things would have been different. And lastly, you’re not allowed to save your progress during a mission and continue later. You have to finish a mission which is too long and repetitive. If I could save and progress through the mission in smaller chunks, then I might have been able to slowly get through it and not burn myself out.
There is some serious problem to feel this way with the first mission. There is no creativity or fun at all when you have nothing but endless fights that are being forced on you (you can’t skip any of them). There are better ways to spend your time.