✅
-Still great soundtrack
-Varied and strategic battle system
-Locations and worldbuilding are excellent
-Themes are surprisingly well written and realized past the halfway point of the game
-Characters are charming and interwoven well with the world and themes

🚫
-Game's overall pacing in terms of gameplay and narrative is extremely slow to pick up, roughly finding its footing around the halfway point
-Plot can feel scattered and lacking direction
-Handful of very cringe scenes and anime tropes really weigh down the first half of the game
-Certain gameplay elements (field skills, upgrading Poppi, the gacha blade system) can be very poorly implemented and unfun
-Tutorials are dogshit