i'm gonna be writing something different here. every review you will see on here is "awwwww this games so addicting and bad awwwww don't play it" WELL I'M NOT GONNA DO THAT. i have something better on my mind: instead, here's a review on the greatest survivor perk in the game, FLIP FLOP.

flip flop is a teachable perk belong to ash williams, which you can spend about $5 to get. what it does is convert your recovery progress when you're down to wiggle progress when you're picked up, up to a maximum of 50% wiggle process. many people will just say "it's just a bad, niche perk that only works well with power struggle and it's garbage!" WELL THEY'RE ALL WRONG.

let me paint a scenario. you just got downed, you start recovering. a teammate is there to try to flashlight save, but they fail and just draw attention to the killer instead, so you get time to recover while they chase away your teammate. you get up to 25, 35, 45, 65, 75... and then you get picked up. at this point, you've got 37.5% wiggle already. the hooks are a fair distance away, so you wiggle and wiggle to try to get out. a teammate running mettle of man and breakout runs over, takes a hit, and gets you just the time you need to be free. you run away with the fully charged sprint burst you have, and heal yourself with that medkit you were packing. saved, because of one perk.

this isn't even all the use cases. what if you have boil over? what if you have unbreakable? what if you have tenacity? what if you have soul guard? there are so many factors to it but it will save you in those moments and can lead to some game changing moments. who the fuck needs DS. who the fuck needs OTR. flip flop is all you need. 5 stars isn't for the game, it's for the perk. 5/5.

ignore the big fuss people have put up with the incest and you have a mediorce "horror" vn.

all the dialogue and writing is muddied and confused on what it wants to be. does it want to be a serious look into emotional manipulation and abuse? does it want to be a comedy game where the funny is "haha what if we fucked"? i don't know, and that's the problem. it jumps between the line and ends up with a painfully bad experience. the writing itself just goes ON AND ON as well. every conversation must be the same conversation on how andrew is being creeped out! ashley is a dickhead! i understand, and yet they feel the need to hammer this in over and over. "but that's the point!" it doesn't really excuse how bad it gets.

it doesn't make me think anything deep, it doesn't make me laugh at all, it makes me feel weirded out by its insistence to make taboo jokes for the sake of it. just plain bad. the art is good i guess.

A fitting and beautiful sendoff to Kiryu and the Dragon Saga. 6 tackles the themes of fatherhood and the different types of bonds formed through it. This entry feels way more grounded than the others; it feels more personal and rough while also showing Kiryu in a different light compared to his other appearances (except 5). He's willing to fight and do anything to protect those he loves, and he really feels backed up by his "I'm not a saint" statement on this one.

The cast of 6 is top tier as well. The Hirose Family are a fun addition and I love all of them. They really do feel like a family (i know this is corny) who are there for each other and fight for one another, Nagumo and Yuta are both really good. Someya is great as well, he brings a "new vs old" feel to the game that conflicts Kiryu (and basically every main member before this game), while also having great characterization and one I felt for at the end.

There are definitely some issues with the game. Story-wise, the final boss is pretty bad. You can say he fits thematically all you want, but there's really not enough buildup at all to justify HIM as the big mastermind. The game starts to falter around the middle, as well. The big secret is way too hyped up for what it is and although it KINDA make sense after it's all explained, it just felt stupid.

Gameplay-wise, yeah it's rough. It's too weighty, it feels off, grabs kinda suck, the combo pause when they block is annoying, etc. I'm probably one of the few people that think it's actually fine, but that could just be because I decided to max all skills and get most of my stats to around 300. It's weird, repetitive, and you will definitely want to go back to the PS3 era of how it's done. It works, but it's really not great.

I think Onomichi is a really fun place to explore, it's compact and small but it kind of reminds me of Okinawa in a way? They're just kinda cozy and I think they're great. Also, substories in this one are fun here too. Ono Michio.

Overall, 6 manages to give Kiryu the closure he's needed all these years and does so in a beautiful way, telling a heartfelt and emotional story that although falters in some areas, will have you satisfied by the end of it. Well until 8 got announced.

PS: why is akiyama here