First of all, I skipped the story dialogue because I didn't want to translate it (still watched most of the cutscenes at least).. so I guess take the 5 stars with a grain of salt?

But this game is genuinely just so fun, super aggressive and smooth combat with some truly stellar boss fights. Falcom really upped their presentation with this game and it does so much for enjoyment.

Killer soundtrack of course.

Despite not reading anything, I still got a really great feel for the friendship between Adol and Karja, really loved it! There was so much personality in their combined fighting styles.

Complaints? Game starts a bit slow and the islands lacked some visual variety, but these are easily made up for.