Up to Sunrise Palace 3.
Once again, + for the bosses, but - for the story. They brought back some older bosses but they lose a lot of their fighting appeal with the nerfs. I expected their patterns to be buffed since Kirin is so much stronger than GV from GV2, but whatever. Also Kirin, agreeing with the bosses, calls GV a bastard in the past games and I don't understand where they're getting those opinions from? GV is no better in this game than the others. There's no moral high ground here. I don't know, the character changes are very off putting.
I think the ice priestess is my favorite boss thus far.
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Final boss was definitely highlight of the game. Easier than the rest of it, but still great sequences. Loved berserk GV. Disappointed by the boss music though.
Hopefully this is the bad ending.
TRUE ENDING COMPLETED
Feel good ending, hopefully the next game has GV as a lead now :)
Still don't like all the character modifications, but whatever, I'm hopeful for GV4
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[19/12/23]
Have thought a bit more on this, and all the story nonsense really brings the rating down again. It's such a downgrade from the genuine care they seemed to put in gv2, and the cope that "no one plays for the story" is really dumb to me when the standards were set in the previous entry. This is a followup, not a spinoff. And if the game expects you to play the levels twice to get the endings, obviously they should actually matter. But yeah, I don't like the direction of the story. I'll still check out the next game, of course, but I don't expect it to be any better than GV2.
