I have over a thousand hours in this game. I wish I never started playing. This game is a cash grab and an absolute chore to play. It is atrociously bad for how much potential it has. It could easily be a 9 if they made some basic changes but they never will. The game runs ok sometimes, but mostly it feels like cloud gaming, or worse. While hunting It misses inputs constantly, freezes, crashes, or lags often, and stutters often, even on high end devices with perfect network connections, so it's clearly a server and game engine issue. This is because it's poorly optimized and the devs prioritize the anticheat over a good experience. In PvP games this makes sense. It **** to lose to cheaters. In this game there is no PvP. They force an active connection while hunting to ensure you aren't cheating, but their servers can't keep up. The result is a laggy dumpster fire **** where precise timing is of paramount importance. When it runs well it's fun, but unfortunately that is the exception rather than the rule. Despite this focus on anticheat ruining the experience of legit players, cheating is still rampant. Cheaters themselves don't affect the gameplay experience of legit players at all though, thankfully. This anticheat over player happiness philosophy extends into the menus and map interface as well unfortunately, as they are also forced active connection and extremely laggy and cumbersome. Buttons often must be pressed multiple times, scrolling is like moving through molasses, and crashes are frequent. So why ruin the core gameplay experience of legit players in favor of trying and failing to prevent cheaters from cheating? That is a great question! And, surprise, the answer is the usual culprit: corporate greed. Surely the devs care about their game and it's players right? Surely they want them to have fun and not waste time or be frustrated by bugs and lag right? Assuming that's true, then the publishers probably think people who would cheat are more likely to be the types of people who would pay for the multitude of microtransactions contaminating the game. They may be right. It has made tens of millions of dollars per month since release in microtransactions alone. So it seems we may have a classic case of publishers not caring about the player experience at all, so long as they are addicted enough to keep playing and keep spending money. Speaking of spending money, this game has more ways to do it than the average gacha game. Between that and the absurdly oversaturated UI with more menus than the 2026 edition of Microsoft Word, you'd think you were playing a gacha game. And in many ways, you are, just with different weapons and armor instead of characters. The most egrigious offender of the lot, is the fact that you must pay for potions to heal. You can wait for your health to replenish slowly, but it takes a long time, and since you need an insane amount of materials to craft anything, you need to hunt all the monsters you can, which means you really don't have time to wait. The end game consists of hunting the same monster over and over trying to do as much damage as possible. The highest scores are a result of getting a group of 3 friends to paralyze the monster while you hack away. Or, for solo players, which seems to be far more common, at least in the "West", you must play perfectly and pray for perfect monster RNG. You must take risks you wouldn't normally, doing a certain attack, hoping the monster will do a certain move, and if the monster RNG isn't in your favor then you must chug a potion and roll the dice again. You can get decent scores without doing this, playing normally, but getting the highest scores as a solo player requires four things: perfect gear, perfect gameplay, lots of free time, and lots of repitition to get that perfect sequence of monster attacks, which requires an unlimited amount of potions, which requires spending obscene amounts of money. If people could spend money just to get gear faster, I wouldn't care at all. It isn't PvP after all, but the potion system effectively makes it pay to play AND pay to win. As if all that wasn't bad enough, they lock QoL features behind paywalls. A game like this rewards longtime players with a variety of builds to hunt monsters with. That's pretty much the whole point of the game, trying different weapons with different bonuses that promote different playstyles against different monsters. However, you only have a limited number of slots to save different loadouts, and if you want more you have to pay a $20 monthly fee, once again punishing their most loyal (and most addicted) players. All of the loot mechanics involve some form of RNG, and items allow more loot to be acquired through this RNG, effectively creating a loot casino with no pity system. Storage is paid. This review is 5000 characters and I still didn't have enough to list all the problems with this game. Save yourself the trouble and don't touch it.

This game is a steaming pile of garbage. I was sick to death of seeing this game in ads. You want me to play this game, Capcom? Fine, I have played this stupid game and I hated every second of it. It's a good thing this piece of garbage is free because there's no way I would've spent a single penny on this worthless trash. What's there to say about this game? It is nothing more than an off-brand Pokemon Go. The game froze in the loading screen. The gameplay is boring and repetitive. The AI is lazily designed. The cat is cringeworthy and so is the music. It's already bad enough that Capcom increased the salaries for their lazy and greedy developers, and now they want to waste so much money advertising this trash. They went as far as to hire a popular philanthropist to promote the game. You want to keep wasting money on the most pointless things, Capcom? Fine, but the second you start crying to us about your financial problems, just remember whose fault is it. And what is it with these ridiculous hairstyles? They're all as bad as the philanthropist's goofy haircut. ● The multiplayer is complete trash. I've decided to delete and uninstall this piece of garbage. There's no way I'm going out in public to play this trash anymore. If I play Tetris in public, no one will care. But the second they catch me playing this garbage, they're going to confuse with the typical nerd gamer. I don't recommend this game at all. ● P.S. Metacritic, I see you deleted 3 of my reviews. What they all had in common was I criticized specific people. Fine, I won't criticize a specific individual by name nor will I talk about their controversies from now on. I also deleted sentences about how dumb people were to think charity makes you immune to criticism, happy now? And I'll try to follow the rules, as long as you enforce them consistently for everyone else, critics included. Other than that, it is my way or the highway. I will still criticize "cliques" for lack of a better word, if they say stupid inconsistent stuff whenever it's relevant. Got it? Fanboyism and bandwagons are a problem. You remember that time people hopped on the "CDPR is the best and they care about the consumer" bandwagon? How'd that end? Exactly, which is why these people need to get called out. Sheep will always end looking stupid, so it's better to think for yourself. So yeah, I need to talk about that. This is the only site where devs read reviews and I want change. How can I expect change when the sheep keep interfering? I will criticize them and that's final.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]