A musou game where you spend remarkably little time actually fighting anything - instead, you spend the majority of your time wading through the most banal, intrigue-less dialogue. The most efficient way to kill anything is a stealth attack followed by an All-Out Attack, made comically easy by the fact that at almost any time you can teleport to a spot that allows you to execute one of these surprise attacks. It means that you're not really fighting until you're on your way to the final boss of an area - fights which themselves lack any kind of real dynamism as it's mostly about using the same Persona abilities and showtime attacks until the health bar is depleted. This isn't a huge problem in a normal turn-based RPG, but for an action game this gets stale quickly.

I'd be a little less bitter about this game if it had any respect for my time, but after spending countless cycles of 5 minutes of real gameplay > 35 minutes of Yusuke jacking himself off, this game has eroded any goodwill I was willing to offer.

Reviewed on Mar 29, 2021


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