I thoroughly enjoyed this game but the way it just throws you in with like 0 handholding makes this game infinitely overwhelming at times. The first 40 hours there was not a single moment where I didn't have atleast six things to keep track of, with a dozen wiki pages open. But after hour 40 it slows down to the point of being just a waiting game for the next opportunity to do something without ever finding an even middle ground. Definitely fun and would recommend to some people, but only those who are well adept at getting stressed at games lol.

If you told me this was a licensed game from 15 years ago, I'd believe you without a second thought. This game feels like it fell through a wormhole and has absolutely no business having come out in 2023.

The vast majority of the gameplay is puzzles, at least half of which are sliding block puzzles. There's a sliding puzzle boss fight. I can get behind a nice sliding block puzzle every now and then, but right now, I don't think I ever want to see one for a good long while. I really don't mind the idea of using all the different elements to creatively solve some puzzles, but they're just so tedious here.

The combat has a sort of beat em up style, and it's incredibly clunky. It's very easy to stunlock enemies and hit them until they die, with them being unable to do anything. It is equally easy for this to happen to you. Neither of these is fun. Boss fights do not fare much better.

This game is also completely broken. I had to quit and reload during the final boss because a button prompt would not leave the screen and would not respond when that button was pressed. Party members you are not controlling will repeatedly walk into fire. Subtitles are incorrectly timed. There are typos. You can walk on walls if you feel so inclined. The first combustion man fight was running at a cool 2 fps. Characters will address characters who are not present. Sometimes the correct character will pop into existence and then vanish, sometimes even that won't happen. During a race, the game will just sometimes decide you have been hit when you absolutely haven't. Everything is janky as hell, and it was almost fun to see how bad it could get.

And finally, this is also a bizarre adaptation of the show. The framing device is ok, but the choice of which parts to adapt was puzzling. Leaving out things like where the hell the gang met toph but keeping stuff like collecting pentapuses is just odd. A person who hasn't seen the show will be lost and a person who has will be frustrated that they aren't seeing so many iconic moments. It's a lose-lose situation.

All in all, this game has glimmers of effort shining through, but it is ultimately a game for nobody.