This is the best game Rgg/Yakuza team did. I am not joking.
Why do I think that way even though this game is a gears of war clone you ask?
Simple. I am a main story first, side content second kind of person, also I don't like pacebreaking moments in a game. Yakuza games loves to interrupt your main story progress unfortunately and I really dislike that. Don't get me wrong, I like side content but I like to do them when I want to do, not when they are forced upon my throat. This game doesn't do that. But it wouldn't be enough to get a 5/5 right? What also captivated me is it's engaging characters, optional conversations that explores character's life views, fun gameplay that is about breaking enemy limbs part by part(almost like a resident evil zombie system), collosal chaotic boss fights and it's light squad mechanics.
Squad mechanics works fine with commands and all (don't use voice commands tho, turn that thing off and use button commands). Except one thing and there is not retreat command. You shouldn't shoot your allies for the trust system (I am gonna get to that) and when they are in front of you, it's hard to do that because they don't retreat. Other than that it works most of the time with advance! Attack! Cover me! Etc.
So when it comes to only big negative I can give to this game is, to get the best ending, you need to almost complete the squad trust system I think?(yeah there is a trust system). It's actually a fun mechanic that demands you to engage with more of the characters, but unfortunately, depending on the story chapter you can't choose some of the characters to your team.
That results with frustrating moments that makes you want to open a guide and just read it to learn at what points you should select what character, if you want the best ending.
I fortunately get the happy ending in my first playthrough with killing as much as enemy I can at the infinitely spawning enemy missions. But I wish this mechanic was better implemented with being more forgiving.
Some people wouldn't even think this point as a negative anyway and just rush through the game, but still I wanted to bring it up, because I really liked the characters That Much! and wanted to get a good ending. But requirements of the trust system bothered me a bit.
So yeah solid game. If you are like me and love main content focused games you will have fun with this one(hopefully)
Also like I said turn off the voice commands. Button commands do fine.
Why do I think that way even though this game is a gears of war clone you ask?
Simple. I am a main story first, side content second kind of person, also I don't like pacebreaking moments in a game. Yakuza games loves to interrupt your main story progress unfortunately and I really dislike that. Don't get me wrong, I like side content but I like to do them when I want to do, not when they are forced upon my throat. This game doesn't do that. But it wouldn't be enough to get a 5/5 right? What also captivated me is it's engaging characters, optional conversations that explores character's life views, fun gameplay that is about breaking enemy limbs part by part(almost like a resident evil zombie system), collosal chaotic boss fights and it's light squad mechanics.
Squad mechanics works fine with commands and all (don't use voice commands tho, turn that thing off and use button commands). Except one thing and there is not retreat command. You shouldn't shoot your allies for the trust system (I am gonna get to that) and when they are in front of you, it's hard to do that because they don't retreat. Other than that it works most of the time with advance! Attack! Cover me! Etc.
So when it comes to only big negative I can give to this game is, to get the best ending, you need to almost complete the squad trust system I think?(yeah there is a trust system). It's actually a fun mechanic that demands you to engage with more of the characters, but unfortunately, depending on the story chapter you can't choose some of the characters to your team.
That results with frustrating moments that makes you want to open a guide and just read it to learn at what points you should select what character, if you want the best ending.
I fortunately get the happy ending in my first playthrough with killing as much as enemy I can at the infinitely spawning enemy missions. But I wish this mechanic was better implemented with being more forgiving.
Some people wouldn't even think this point as a negative anyway and just rush through the game, but still I wanted to bring it up, because I really liked the characters That Much! and wanted to get a good ending. But requirements of the trust system bothered me a bit.
So yeah solid game. If you are like me and love main content focused games you will have fun with this one(hopefully)
Also like I said turn off the voice commands. Button commands do fine.