This game is fucking great. Fantastic presentation and fits right in with the SAC anime. It's weird Ghost in the Shell games are so few and far between because I feel like it has the most potential out of a franchise to make the jump and this game speaks a lot to that.

The combat is a lot of fun and provides a decent amount of options even if it trends towards running and gunning. There's just a lot of potential for more acrobatic shooters and I need more of it.

It also looks great visually and the music is just sick as hell (maybe among the top tier of the era tbh). I love that they went through the effort of getting the anime's dub voice cast for the english version too.

There's definitely some problems though... The level design is a bit copy and paste or just a little wonky. I love the locations you go to, but a little better direction or layout could have helped a lot. The other problem is AI is just a little too dumb. They can put up enough of a fight to keep you moving, but they never really had much in the way of surprises.

Still the bones here are solid and I would have loved to see them do more with this.