Just finished Route A, so far I fucking love this game. Besides the enthralling story, and charming elements of insanity, the music is top tier, and the art style helps make up for the lack of detail in the world and graphics. Game runs smooth on emulation, and it elevates the combat to be much more engaging. Despite the simplicity of combos, the system of switching between weapons, dodging, and hitting rewarding parries makes for a pretty fun, mindless gameplay loop. The side missions are pretty dog though.

The story. Fucked up ending, almost made me tear up some, but I know it's only just getting started. Found myself extremely attached to Mikhail and Zero despite their fucked up relationship. I know there is more to Zero's mission so I am excited to learn about how fucked up this game can get. Gonna play through the sister prologues and other routes, come back with a final review. Would love to learn more about Four, and I heard Two's was pretty fucked.