Codent
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Laughably bad. This is the cream of the crop at how not to do a payoff: the game. The story provided answers and conclusions to the arc that are just unsatisfactory and meaningless. Chief among them being the curse and the retcons that comes with said curse. But then there are also these lovely stumbles such as Crossbell's Liberation being an offscreen event (like it did on Azure so good job at stringing along the crossbell fans who are looking forward to an actual expansion of that ending they saw at Azure, Kondo) character shilling and rising prominence of New Class VII that comes at the expense of the older characters agency (like Juna and SSS or Musse in relation to Olivier and his rivalry with Osborne). Let's not forget to mention how this game renders CS3 pointless courtesy of bringing back everyone who "died" in its ending or handwaving away all the ouroboros actions in the previous game mere experiment that don't mean much in the grandscheme of things. Jaw-dropping levels of fail, this one.
The lore setups are interesting but really, after wasting a whole arc (perhaps even two if you are looking for conclusions for the Crossbell arc too) with meaningless kerfuffle and fumbles, why would you have any excitement for these setups? Nevertheless they did save the story from being a complete waste of time so. Okay.
This game if nothing else, sets a bad precedent on how badly the writers could drop the balls on paying off all the masterful setups they've done in previous games. It certainly gives a strong case for me to just wait out all of the next arc instead of jumping blindly into it in the future. Avoid this one and get a summary if you wanna get into the next game/arc instead
The lore setups are interesting but really, after wasting a whole arc (perhaps even two if you are looking for conclusions for the Crossbell arc too) with meaningless kerfuffle and fumbles, why would you have any excitement for these setups? Nevertheless they did save the story from being a complete waste of time so. Okay.
This game if nothing else, sets a bad precedent on how badly the writers could drop the balls on paying off all the masterful setups they've done in previous games. It certainly gives a strong case for me to just wait out all of the next arc instead of jumping blindly into it in the future. Avoid this one and get a summary if you wanna get into the next game/arc instead
Persona 5 Royal
2019
Being ported to everything doesn’t save the fact that the game is mid.
We finally got a fully voiced Byleth but at what cost?
I've read fanfiction better than this. Not like I had much hope about the story in the first place since it's a warriors spin-off game with a completely new protagonist. It has some good scenes and fights of course. Especially SB. I actually kinda liked the route and more Edelgard content is always a win, but man ...all in all this game is really kind of a mess.
Some characters behave strangely in order to fulfil nothing more than pure fanservice and awful tropes (looking at you AG). And some of them are just irrelevant in general.
The secret chapters are a joke and just prove that the original characters are unnecessary and only exist because it's a warriors game. I guess that was to be expected but it's still disappointing to see. Welp, I'm glad this isn't canon.
The gameplay is fun for the first few hours then it's getting too grindy and tedious for me.
Overall Three Hopes is an alright game if you like the cast because the new supports and character interactions are fun to watch, but this game only made me appreciate Three Houses even more to be honest.
I know this is a fanservice spin-off "nobody dies" AU, but the circumstances surrounding the lords this time around are too convenient imo. There was simply no tension. Even the endings felt too abrupt and all routes lacked the emotional impact Three Houses offered. The routes were lacking in emotional investment, mostly due to odd pacing and lack of exposition in certain things and character interactions.
(The game leaked a few days ago, so I had the chance to play it early.)
I've read fanfiction better than this. Not like I had much hope about the story in the first place since it's a warriors spin-off game with a completely new protagonist. It has some good scenes and fights of course. Especially SB. I actually kinda liked the route and more Edelgard content is always a win, but man ...all in all this game is really kind of a mess.
Some characters behave strangely in order to fulfil nothing more than pure fanservice and awful tropes (looking at you AG). And some of them are just irrelevant in general.
The secret chapters are a joke and just prove that the original characters are unnecessary and only exist because it's a warriors game. I guess that was to be expected but it's still disappointing to see. Welp, I'm glad this isn't canon.
The gameplay is fun for the first few hours then it's getting too grindy and tedious for me.
Overall Three Hopes is an alright game if you like the cast because the new supports and character interactions are fun to watch, but this game only made me appreciate Three Houses even more to be honest.
I know this is a fanservice spin-off "nobody dies" AU, but the circumstances surrounding the lords this time around are too convenient imo. There was simply no tension. Even the endings felt too abrupt and all routes lacked the emotional impact Three Houses offered. The routes were lacking in emotional investment, mostly due to odd pacing and lack of exposition in certain things and character interactions.
(The game leaked a few days ago, so I had the chance to play it early.)