played this for the very first time last year and it immediately became one of my most treasured games. i'm a huge fan of games that are too ambitious for their own good and think it handles it well here. everything about it just hit right for me the collage story mixing and matching different sci-fi and mecha tropes with a dash of the writers obsessions with certain themes, the combo themed battle system and the mech boost system, the unusual second disc it all just worked for me nothing that people nitpicked really hit me in the wrong way and the characters stories went places that multiple times i braced for impact of something terrible only for it to be treated respectfully (namely billy and id's stories) the only bad thing people say about this game that i can agree with to be honest is that the platforming is bad but like . .who cares?