A short and sweet narrative walking sim with a really unique premise. The writing, for me, was hit-or-miss, but the performances hit much more often than they missed, and i think the high points easily outweigh the low. A lot of the quiet moments feel alternately tense and calm, and it's hard for me to place the overall vibe here, but it's very evocative. I cried during one scene, and another had me on the edge of my seat. Steam tells me I finished in in 78 minutes. I'll be looking forward to what Doc and the team do next!

Edit: I just noticed the achievements list (don't look until after you beat it), and it pleases me to know that if I wanted to revisit this game in a couple years, I can do some things differently. The game really masks that in a way that feels natural. I didn't think there was any wiggle room. I don't feel compelled to immediately hop back in, but that gives me a reason to replay it after some time away to ruminate.

Even People who profoundly avert the Musou genre should play this game, because it strips off many characteristics of the usual tropes. How ATLUS delivered state of the art storytelling time and time again over the past few years is beyond me. From characters to music to new style, Persona 5 as a franchise has been the biggest blast to play and contiunes to be a powerhouse of JRPG's and Strikers is no exception
Also this game has tons of references from JOJO's to internet culture to Shin Megami Tensei itself it's hilarious

-The power and futility of images
-The unreconcilable friction between self expression, documentation, and occupation
-The urgency and necessity of cultural perseverance and joy, even as bloody torrents surge through broken dams
-The act of bearing witness to the places and people whose glittering specificity will be dashed and diluted by apocryphal, self-absolving media narratives scrawled by the servants of those who erased them
-The film reel collectibles are TOO SMALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Something happens to certain places.
Where they begin to take on a life or personality of their own.
Where they start to act less like a place and more like a person.
You interact more with a place, maybe it is more like a person. Recording, hoarding memories of the events they witnessed - strung together, infinite paper dolls.
You don't see what's going on here. Huh.
Maybe next time."