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if you play the game beginning to end, do no challenges no hard mode and no minigames its a 8/10. but when you dive deeper it falls apart, Horrible combat probably the worst jrpg /action combat out there, worse than rpg like tales, star ocean, genshin, etc, worse action then most action games DMC Kingom Hearts. souls games. Poor enemy animation that barley give any warning before attacks., enemies spin on their heal to hit you. the worst tracking i have ever seen, except for some of your attack that sometimes go opposite of locked on enemy. once i dodged under a jumping worm and it speeen 1080¤ in the air just to hit me. ai will walk into aoe attacks or just stand and block Cheap Instant wipe attack in fights that can last 20 minutes Cheap grab moves that kill or take party member out of fight. Cheap attack that look and are named fire/lighting/ice that don´t count as such and ignore your defense against such elements. hard mode was easy compared to previous game but it turned the game into a cheap clone of Sekiro were you just run around and parry to fill stagger attack. and again. un-skippable cut scenes during battle are annoying to see after every five attacks only to die to instant wipe bs being forced to see them again and again. super toxic minigames that require extreme precision and skill to finish for rewards, some games 20plus try to get reward and there are allot. game literally wants you to learn the piano on sticks, so sad because some minigames are fun but quickly become a place for frustration/anger. and wort of all CHADLEY Never Shuts The F up. while doing side quest and map things, he and i counted in 1 hour he called 20 times. before/after fighting monster he calls, after finding item he calls, after walking he calls... he is everywhere yapping, .you cant even enter or exit combat simulator without him Yapping his nasty gums, and during his yapping cant enter combat simulator or menu some times worst offender is stupid modern square QTE events especially during some emotional cut scenes that ruin whats happening on screen cuz mash dem l2 r2 haptic buttons ahjuuk vewwy fun, said no one ever about QTE Visuals are good in towns and cut scenes but for the most have bad lighting, shadows, draw distance, or blurry image quality, its an Old version of UE4 and goes not feel current gen.

Stunning art, good music, Amazing story, Fun gameplay. The grafix during battle keep it bellow 10/10 kinda hard to se what unit is what at a glance. And no sense of scale. Hopi g for sequel.

Fun gameplay lots of loot, meh story, visuals are really ugly.. Still allot of fun to play. Would buy sequel.

Most action rpg games cant get 1 character to control and feel good, this game has 11. amazing visuals, superb soundtrack and boss battles that are large and epic. not the QTE on the rails bs like in square enix games you actually play the battles instead of watching them. voiceacting is good, the story ****, if the story whas good it would have been a 10 masterpice

Jrpg at its finest, no cringy depressed winy 14 yo mc, no QTE boss battles. Just a amazing adventure with tons of characters with endings based on choice. And sidequests that add to the story instead of bunch of fetchquest to pad the game..

For fans only , as this game tie-up some loose ends and lets you enjoy 50+ characters from the crossbell and erbonia saga the new heroes serve no real purpose and add very little to the game overall, and have very thin storylines. tho the rest is amazing putting a story together with this many characters was gonna be little messy but i found much pleasure in getting to se the aftermath of the adventure that ended previous game, and get a glimpse of the furur. visuals are 8/10 smooth 60fps tons of locations with amazing art and character design, sound and music id 10/10 simply amazing as one expects of falcom had to let go of my controller and enjoy the music several times. some. terrible minigames make it lose a point for me.

The good? epic boss battles, amazing music, interesting story. The bad everything else. It feels like bootleg Witcher. Combat is repetitive and boring, way to easy with enemies having excessive hp, fighting the same 10 enemies the entire game, small enemy vith axesword, big guy with hammeraxe, flying bird, wyvern, bomb, and then some of the worst reskinre color I have encountered a AAA game. Boss battles consist of on the rails QTE nightmares. They do look epic tho, but this is not supposed to be a interactive movie. Sidequest and exploring feel like a chore and reward nothing but crafting materials that you craft 1 thing with at start of chapter then they pileup in inventory by the thousands. Enemies level with each chapter making leveling irrelevant as they stay at your level and you don't feel like you grow in strength. Visuals are amazing if it wasn't for choppy framerate and horrendous blur, the blur got patched tho, still **** for half the game Animation is horrible reusing the same animation for 90% of the game, zoom in on Clive he waves hand zoom in on NPC shoulder shrug zoom to Clive reaches for camera to giveget item. Main character voice is like the town drunk woke up in the snow to cold to express or speak words instead of mumbling them. Barely showing feelings true game except for some random times in battle. The rest are good voice acting.

cheap cash grab dlc. 2 new small maps brunch of monsters copied from other games, with even worse hitboxes and tracking then main game ones. horrible visuals. story consists of grind to mr10 for event then grind mr20 for event etc etc endgame is grind to mr 140, your reward fight same enemy but now its red or blue. with 400%hp and no extra challengem, no just tank. the reward you get armor that is lvl 10 but looks the same as the other its just lvl10

a perfect end to a trilogy that surpasses its prequels in every regard. Visuals 8/10 amazing art, high attention to detail and smooth framerate coupled with several huge unique OpenWorld maps to explore, makes for a visually pleasing adventure that will last. seems the release version had bad DoF making it blurry mess but this has been patched Story 6/10 kinda bland as all character development was finished in previous games, still interesting enough tho with likable new character. Minus for Japanese only voice acting, seems kinda cheap imo, this is fine during cutscenes but when exploring they talk allot and it forces you to stop and read the small text on the screen. Combat 6/10 typical atelier combat easy to completely break but challenging if you restrain yourself. example i killed the last boss with 1 bomb making the battle last 1 second this needs some balancing in the future.

another falcom masterpice, finally comes in english for us to enjoy Story 10/10 breathtaking had tears in eye at times. Music 10/10 stopped playing or paused dialog at times just to enjoy it Combat 8/10 easy, and easy to abuse. You can die before you can act if rng gets bad and enemy instant cast spell that hits all with instant death or instant cast on the roulette, this only happened once though. Visuals 6/10 dated they could have done more, some simple post processing ao shadows and updated textures is not that much of a hassle, as even modders do that. its saved by amazing art and insane attention to detail, world is very cohesive and seams real, with stores and dungeons full of small details that immerse you, a masterpiece of an rpg and a must for any fan.

108 hrs. later i have done everything, This is Inferior to the previous game in every way, a game that was released in 2018 for last gen consoles, ist smaller not as detailed and has no life like the previous one, with the worst hitboxes in gaming history "no joke" enemies will do tail swipes that hit you in the air, punch the ground 10 meters away from you that hit you, they will bite the air and you get hit while behind them as the whole enemy becomes a damage box when attacking at times. Still a fun game even if you yell bull#¤&%/ at the screen at times. multiplayer joining is trash as 90% of the time you press to join it says failed to join, or a error popup, so i just solo everything, it was better on the ps2 back in the day had no issues joining then, if you love monster hunter buy this its cheap. but for everyone else stay away.

As a huge Neptunia fan that ownes all their games and all remakes, this is disappointing, and i feel truly scammed at 70$ calling this a PS5 game is a genuine scam, and IF has lost a Fan i will not buy games like this from them again at full price. combat is so trash i was killing lv 80 enemies by not looking at the screen mashing square at level 37. all side quests are rng, get number of items or kill number of enemies, that spawn randomly these usually popup after the dungeon so you have to go back. Game has 4 dungeon design that rotate an change very slightly, they look randomly generated.. then there is a random large city with nothing in it, for no reason.. feels like they just slapped together leftover assets that don't fit together and called it a day. Runs at 30 fps on ps5 with serious stutter while looking like a vita title with a fan made texture pack, Sony needs to be better at what companies can call a ps5 title as this does nothing that a ps3 cant do, and definitely nothing that is unique the ps5 has to offer. game took me 40h to platinum and i was sitting in the menu 20h waiting for disc creation to complete as it took 10 min each time so its around 20h with post game.. if you are a Neptunia fan buy at 20$ and it's meh but ok but at 70$ NO! insulting to fans.

Falcoms Masterpiece and one of my favorite games ever, a must for any Jrpg fan with a amazing sound track. Grafix =6 nice art, world design, huge variety of monsters with loads of characters and locations. But it is a port of a vita game and that shows, but it still competes with most modern ps4 Jrpg and it runs at 60Fps. Story =10 one of the best storys ever told in a game, very well written with amazing characters that you care about, and all of them with side quests that dives into their background, as all characters have a purpose, on the iland you are stranded you set out to find other survivors, and it endsup being a huge journey. Combat =10 leve it to falcom one of the oldest rpg makers in the world, that basically invented the action Rpg genre in the 80s to master it perfectly, combat is snappy, controls are responsive tons of skills on multi characters that you switch between, as different characters ar strong against certain types, Raids, Hunts Small-Huge monsters to fight, very rewarding with 5 difficulties. World and navigation = 8 world consists of multiple zones small to medium in size, that have almost no longtime between them no slowdowns to load things, controls are again awesome with several tools that let you traverse the world, fast travel, maps that uncover while exploring without spoiling. menus are fast clear and easy to understand a journal that keeps all items and what drops them with search function in the game to find stuff you already have discovered, great quest logs and other info to help that feels easy and un cluttered to use.

Amazing rpg that i could not put down till i finished it, and still hungry for another playthrough, tho not without issues i highly recommend for J-rpg fans, Star ocean is BACK. Story = 6 Average but entertaining. nothing special but fun non the less. characters are kinda meh, not unlikable per say, but i struggled to care about any of them. Combat = 8 very fun, i like the blind side and **** stuff keeps combat fun for 60h+ lots of challenges to find of the path, and in post game. Graphics = 7 Above average for large games like these, but plagued by frame drops in towns and cities, thankfully this is not an issue in combat and dungeons. characters are detailed but have **** face animations, some have weird 3d models that don't match the character art, while others look fine, this is standard star ocean stuff tho. Wold and Navigation =8 Plenty of areas lots of secrets, chests, side quests Private actions to find. some areas look stunning other meh but always fun to explore, the duma lets you fly across areas and gives dungeons verticality and a way to cover area fast when in need. Interface/ui = 4 Worst in the series the menus look terrible, and sometimes lag when you start crafting allot, especially when entering the equip screen with many things in inventory. Crafting flashes Fullscreen White at end, gets panful when you craft hundred of items against the dark menu. Text is way to small in the ui, mini-map is to small and way too zoomed in, it show´s less then what you can see with your eyes often only showing blue ground making it useless.

amazing game that brings nothing new but polishes Mosty everything over its predecessor. Recommended a true sequel and fun ride. Story = 8 Honestly mediocre like a superhero movie, A bad guy, a journey to stop him, a hero doin stuff his way nothing new but entertaining. Were it shines is in the characters with quality voice acting that makes you care about the people on screen, you feel their pain, anger, frustration. simply amazing writing. and a beautiful world full of lore were it takes place. Graphics = 9 A last gen game and that shows, long corridors of beautiful vistas connected by slow climbing, tunnels, cracks, that slow you down so that old consoles can keep up, with the visuals on display. When it opens up its usually large water areas with small ilands, desert with small alcoves or ice areas that are kinda empty, impressive for ps4 with 2013 hardware, but on ps5 not so much. Facial animation and mocap is insane makes the characters look alive with weight like they live in a world with gravity that actually affects things on armor and objects in motion. Combat = 6 barley above average for games of this type, where it falls short is the focus on makin things look cool instead of feeling good. its very slow, combos/skills look cool by slowing down time, but only for you as enemies can still move fast, example when you combo an enemy and the slow-Mo finisher / jump high while yelling slowly, enemy's will just recover move out and slap you while Kratos try to look cool, or totally assault you while you cast some skill/spell that lock you in to animations, that don't stagger enemies. All this makes you just use r1 attacks and dodge as blocking is worthless cuz they spam unlockable and shield breaking stuff all the time. this makes 85% of the whole skill tree useless. Back are the challenge bosses but not as good as the Valkyries, this time they teleport fly shoot summon enemies have infinite poise, spam unlockable jump attacks like they are some kinda flea, sometimes they trow multiple bosses at a time kinda cheap tbh. frustrating to the point of me just over leveling as the fun of a challenge was not there, Story fights are good but if i compare to Elden Rings polished combat and bosses this is inferior in every way. World and navigation =7 Traversal is slow constantly slowed down by hidden loading such as climbing, crawl tunnels, gaps to squeeze tru, some worlds are huge other very small. all puzzles are back with hardly anything new, freeze gears, throw axe at 3 blue things to open chest, trow ax at red things in order to open stuff all copied from previous game.

Story = 8 nothing special but we'll executed. Characters = 10 rarely do I play a jrpg were I like the whole cast as they range from ok to amazing Euni Bering awesome. Battle = 6 worst in any xeno game it plays it self, only thing you add is cutting down the time by cancelling an using skills. All classes are glass cannons, except tanks that **** at holding aggro and even when They do an enemy aoe attacks will kill your healers as they have no range on healing arts and stand next to tanks to heal them. Chain attacks add 5minutes to 2 minute battles so you don't use them even if you miss the exp multiplier. Bosses are 90% pink giants and "unique" world bosses are just regular enemies with scale factor set to 200x. Horrible enemy variety game has like 30 of the same bunny bird and croc enemy probably the worst I have seen in a j-rpg in years this including other xeno games. World =7 It's allot of empty space that barley has anything worth exploring as most chest contain the same nopon coins. Tho it is amazing to behold visually especially when you look down on huge areas you just explored and gasp at the scale. System = 4 no equipment like in previous games that change looks and give build options. Tons of duplicate accessories that range from low quality to legendary, tho there can be low quality accessories that are +30% attack and then legendary that are + 20% attack this makes 0 sense And they have different names even tho they do the same thing, this making inventory sorting a pain as you can't sort by type only by name, ordervalue. Changing classes is fun but visually boring previous game had tons of unique blades and armour options. This just slaps on robes and trinkets on your base costume with few exceptions you look the same. Graphics = 4 it's just plain ugly for a new game in 22 when other games push billions of triangles hirez textures raytracing. This has barely any shadows, textures are terribly blurry loding times are long, image quality is improved but still blurry shimmering. Can't wait to se what this studio will do in the future the switch needs to retire. Game is a must buy if you love jrpg but Giving it 10 is insanity and fan boyism. I have followed this studio since xenogears and they are the reason I own a switch, as I only own the xeno games. But giving it 10 and calling it goty is copium At best, no matter how much you love it.

Graphics =3 laggy and blurry inconsistent visuals with glitches that can make entire screen flash white at times. Needlessly big world that is empty and takes to long to traverse with vast empty spaces. Character animations are substandard by indie psp game level of standards, facial animations are hideous and creepy. Gameplay =2 allot of gimmicks none especially polished and repetitive puzzles. In battle why do you need to first press R2 then X,X to attack, when other RPGs just press manage with x, repetitive fetch quests that just mark a huge circle on the map that you need to search. Weapons and rewards from quests immediately "10 min later" become replaced making these fetching searching quests unrewarding. Story= 3 unlikeble characters that you just don't care about, story that is kind of bland and forgettable. Sound= 7 Great soundtrack and nice voice acting sometimes unbalanced sound levels like during load times song plays much higher then rest.

3 points for grafics 2 points for voice acting. 1 points for gameplay. Clunky controlls you keep getting stuck on things or character will start climbing walls in middle of battle. Enemies have excessive health pools and all jump around like water fleas, yes even large enemies like giant turtles will jump about projectiles curve in air sometimes 90 degree's. Enemies don't always telegraph attacks and most enemies are magicians able to summon fire tornados and stuff trough walls and floor, with tracking that makes souls bosses blush, hit detection is terrible you often get hurt by enemies striking the air around you, heck I was killed by an enemei clawing the ground when attacking from above it. Also fights last so long usually multiple enemies groups get involved jumping about an juggling you this game is insanely PS3era only looks like a new game. Dont look at all these 1010 reviews obviously dev's rating it themselves no one sane thinks this is a masterpiece.

Truly a masterpiece never seen a world this dense in content, tons of dungeons, different enemy types hundreds of armours, weapons, magic all with individual lore that ground them in the world. Amazing soundtrack, and stunning Environments. Sadly very poor performance, you go for graphics or Frame-rate when you do a game, this goes for None of those, when ether would be fine. If it had stable frame rate it would be 10/10 fancy graphics do not matter to me when the art is this good, but at least make it Stable fps on PS5 really laggy at times.

cheap cash grab i can not understand how anyone can score this 10 even if you love persona 5. Graphics=2 game at times looks worse than some psp titles from 2005 insane aliasing ugly low poly character models very low level stuff constant loading times for whatever reason. most low budget indies look better at 1/3 the price. Story=6 below average, saved by good voice acting. all the character development was done in pesona 5 this adds nothing. Characters do love to go on tangents and repeat themselves over and over, like someone tells you to go somewhere then everyone in the group needs to tell you that exact same thing like if you cant read or hear the other characters. Everyone needs to flap their gums about the slightest thing like a button in a dungeon In case you missed the radar pointing to it and the thick Glowing red outline strobe on the object. They almost never add anything to conversation but more text, This is what someone without friends would imagine conversations go cringe at best. This comes from someone that has played almost every released jrpg since the snes days so i am used to dialog Combat=1 This has to be some of the worst action combat ever made in a game released in 2020 is beaten by games like Devil may cry/brave fencer mushashi released on the ps1 in 2001 and 100 more the last 20 years is embarrassing. If you like this style of games go play Tokyo xandu instead..

Has everything you would want from an Jrpg.. nice well paced story, Great visuals, excellent voice acting. satisfying game length and post content. minus points for the worst LOD/Popup i have seen in years, characters and other things appear very Close to camera

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