Not there yet. The story's possibly the weakest in the series, it's literally missing more than half the classes from before (from 47 to just 22) and the game balance really needs some tuning.

I'm not that down on the game though. I'm interested in seeing how the season pass goes, and I like the idea behind the new system: tuning the AI is very fun and involved! They need to have a few more roadblocks and manage the system as you go through the game as it gets too trivial towards the end. I also think the graphics work well - on PS5, you can have it running well over 4K and the models appear to be mostly untextured, with a reasonably high polygon count and toon shader. All the 2D assets in 1080 look really poor, including all the artwork. On the other hand, it does mean that the entire thing comes in at well under 3 gigabytes, even with fully voiced story cutscenes (though no animated intro).

One worry though - I've had 4 crashes in the last day alone on my PS5. This is the least stable game I've played on the machine, and disappointing after a rock solid 120-plus hours on Galleria.

Reviewed on Jan 16, 2022


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