Very heavy character focused story to the game's benefit. Really leans into the comics aesthetic, both in style and in story-telling. So yeah some of the characters are pretty shallow and one-dimensional, but the main players are well-developed and there is plenty of screentime for all 4 buddies. Lots of content really, almost overwhelming with how much side content there is. (I think it might be like another 20 hours of visual novel stuff to the 40-ish hour main campaign.)

The puzzles aren't hard because it's about the journey to get the clues more than the puzzles themselves. Having two different routes for most of the missions and different dialogue depending on which buddies you bring together into a mission give a nice flair to these sections, making needing to replay some of these missions to get all the side content unlocked not so bad.

Really the only downsides is the QTEs kinda suck and aren't fun to play. And the above mentioned shallowness - the game plays it a little too safe sometimes not really going into the problems that are clearly present in the world. [And yeah, it feels BL-adjacent without having any explicit BL moments but I wasn't expecting more from a Nintendo game lol.]