i might not have even minded this game so much if it just didn't run like absolute shit and crash every other time i would try to launch it. really wanted to stick it through for the first soldier and (potentially) before crisis stuff but god is it boring.

menu after menu blasting you with information, hoping you'll just eventually give up and stop thinking about the numbers and just cough up the dough to get rid of the hassle. drip feeding you the tiniest rewards for completing missions after showering you with goodies for logging in for the first time, hoping you'll try and chase that high by spending your hard earned money to get the ACTUAL good shit.

and can we talk about fucking stupid of a premise this is as a gacha? "experience these fully released video games, only shittier!" it'd make a bit more sense if this was a game where it was recapping EVERY final fantasy game so there's a bit more meat on the bone to it, or if the gacha rewards weren't ONLY weapons. yeah, no, it's not even like hoyoverse games where you have a chance of pulling a character or something, you just get weapons. how do you fuck up a gacha game so badly that you make the main selling point so fucking lame.

shit, going back to that final fantasy series gacha, id play the shit outta that. you're thinking im not rolling for "firion in a maid outfit?" that might be the closest a gacha will ever get to having me pay for something in them.

also fuck this game for not allowing you to log in if you have a VPN enabled lmao, don't play this garbage, not even as a joke.

this hack is so interesting. ive been trying to find more info on it and coming up short. the only source i can find for where it possibly came from is some obscure pokemon forum that's been abandoned for a decade, and the guy who claimed to make it was known to be a troll on that forum who supposedly had cancer??? unless he was lying abt that. like i said, information is very hard to find. wouldn't recommend this at all unless you're just fascinated by weird shit like i am. can't even really give this a rating, it's just kind of an anomaly. what a weird game!

i can see why ppl fuck with this so hard. it's a fun time, still looks and sounds great, the game play is top notch, the story isn't very interesting but its told in a very charming way.

this game has a lot of small issues that slowly build up over time to make it less enjoyable for me overall (FUCK the method of getting the final weapon orbs) but it's hard to complain when i was so charmed and delighted by the rest of the adventure. i'll have to try this out in co-op sometime, since this was a solo playthrough.