playing this game back to back with the original was a fun exercise and it really highlighted a lot of cool shit and a lot of lame shit in this one. I really love the combat system here and I really like the way they expand on some of the story stuff but it comes at some weird expenses like some really horrid pacing (it would be okay for the game to be 20 hours guys) and like completely assassinating Tifa's character like just absolutely putting her in the ground.

grafting a bunch of weird trash on here seems like coward shit when you could just be exploring the actual really good themes of 7 in greater detail which they flirt with a little bit here and sometimes powerfully but idk if i trust them to actually deliver on.

it would be a lot funnier to just start throwing a bunch of bullshit from the compilation please put the cast of dirge of cerberus in these games thank you