I really wanted to love it but it was like the game kept turning to me and then slapping me in the face with some stupid bullshit.

The soundtrack was absolutely fire though! And the artistic direction or whatever was swag. I wasn't sure if the story would ever click for me. The first couple hours of Route C were so fire I wish the whole game was that good. That's when I became somewhat invested and interested in the story.

I just really didn't like the gameplay man it was so mind-numbing and brainless. I could feel my eyes going out of focus during every combat encounter because there was no thought to it at all besides mashing some buttons, holding RB the whole time, and using a damage-doubling item to make the fight go twice as quickly. Watch enemy health bar go down slowly, use one of your 99 heals when you get hit. Repeat for 30 hours. And I don't know man it's always the same little annoying robots that you're killing. And sometimes you die and have to repeat like 20 minutes of gameplay for no real reason.

Route B did not need to exist at all, the few new things that were in route B could've just been added to A. In fact, the whole "26 endings" thing didn't need to exist at all. The 5 main endings could've been merged into one game and the other 21 could've been deleted. That's what I think and I will stand by it.

Maybe it's because this is like the 8th game I've played about "robot tries to understand emotion and what it means to be human" but I didn't have the same connection with the story and characters that everyone else did. Which sucks I guess, I would have liked to love this game but the frustrating design choices and gameplay made the game annoying for me to play through.

I did not hate the game completely but I do not think it's peak fiction I am sorry everybody.