It was fun for the first 20 minutes. Then it soon gets really repetitive and kinda frustrating, the concept of exploring the map like that is not interesting at all and it just becomes obtuse after you get past the first few potions. How is somebody supposed to consistently make complicated potions if it takes so many ingredients? Not great overall

Started great. Really fun, the enemies weren't too many and the 6 items slot wasn't hard to manage. Then it slowly starts to get worse and worse, and by the time you get to the basement the game gets completely fucked. With no map you have to walk back and forth from the save-room 5000 fucking times because there are like 5 main puzzles active at a time and the game throws around all kinds of different items. Plus the enemies are literally everywhere and they get tougher and tougher making it a drag even to walk around. The story also doesn't help since it's the usual uninteresting abstract shit that requires you to go look it up on youtube (only to find out that it's as trashy as you thought it was). Oh, and of course it's full of random cringe waifus covered in blood. What a waste...

Very cute and good soundtrack. Unfortunately I couldn't play for more than 2 hours, the controls are so clunky I just struggled to move around the world and after only playing a couple of in-game days it already felt repetitive

2022

Great art direction ruined by trash combat and an embarrassing checkpoint system. Wish this was just a horror puzzle game where you could walk around and enjoy the world... And you can't even give the devs the merit for the art since it's all been copied and pasted from Giger

The zoo gets way out of hand too quickly, it went from being relaxing to stressful in just a couple of hours. Meh

The new engine is great for walking around and entering stores without loadings, but the combat is kinda lame and isn't nearly as deep as Yakuza 0 and Kiwami 1. Also the story gets really stupid towards the end, apparently everyone is a Korean Mafia member

I don't mind playing a generic open world game like this every once in a while. Way better than the first one obviously and San Francisco is pretty

30 fps felt like 5 at best, huge delay and 0 valuable support after launch other than broken characters that ruin the game for everyone that didn't buy them. Imagine if the game was made by a competent game developer...

Very "unnecessary". Since I'm not a 14 years old girl, I'm not particularly interested in teen romances with cute dialogues. The whole thing feels like a way for Naughty Dog to milk the huge success of the base game. Given that a part of the money probably went into the budget for The Last of Us Part 2 I'm definitely not complaining.

If you don't like the gameplay it doesn't mean it's a "trash UPS simulator", grow up and accept that some games are not for everyone.

2022

I'm at a point in my life where I'm kind of tired of playing hard games, so I'm glad I didn't quit after my 14th try at the second level. Definitely deserve some awards this year.

It had the perfect length to not seem repetitive to me, never got bored

The worst JRPG I've ever played. The combat is absolutely trash, even the shittiest enemy is a damage sponge and takes 5 minutes of button mashing to kill (the bad kind of button mashing, not satisfying like a Musou). The story is garbage like the average anime. The characters are so incredibly boring and I cringe just thinking about their dialogues. Level design is stuck in 2008 and there's virtually no RPG aspect to the game: no dialogue choices, no armors and you just need to buy a new weapon every new city. EVEN THE MUSIC IS TRASH, how the fuck do you manage to miss the soundtrack in a JRPG? Even bad ones have great soundtracks. I had to stop after getting all the party members, I wasted enough time on this crap. This kind of game is the demonstration that videogame journalism has a huge bias towards certain genres like Indies and JRPGs, don't trust the reviews. If you're older than 12 and you've played a game before in your life, this is not for you.

Italian Pokémon fans waited years for this, and we've been told that we were finally gonna get a mature story in a Pokémon game. Lmao that absolutely wasn't the case. It's overall just an average Pokémon game with some cute stuff in the post-game

The controls are terrible. It was really painful to play it to the end, but the story is great and the dialogues are pretty good so I liked it nonetheless. Deserves a decent "remastered"