the music is great as always but the game in every other respect feels like a departure from what i loved about previous gear games, it all feels too clean, simple, and slow for me to continue feeling anything special for it. i really did hope the game would eventually reach the level of XX or Xrd through updates but around the time of jack-o i realized that this was likely never going to happen.
i can be grateful at least for it introducing people to the previous entries, though i still feel disconnected from everyone that sticks to it since it hardly feels like the same series to me anymore.

edit: dropped by another star with the recent build up for a new character drop making me realize this is the first time ive actively wished for a game to not include a character i like