Not putting stars because folk on this site are fuckin' weirdos about specific games, but I'm baffled as to how this became a beloved classic.
Playing it feels like treading treacle. I shouldn't have tortured myself by continuing on hours and hours after I lost all interest. I would usually drop something like that these days, but I had to know. I had to see what the fuss was about. Everybody who ever told me this was great should give me ten quid. How dare you?!
The game is spitting bible shit at me, and it just hits nothing. Lots of terms you know, but they feel empty. I want to blame the dodgy translation, but god (wahey) knows how accurate any of it is, because a quick google brings up either how it was painstakingly done to be as faithful (another one) as possible, or chucked together by one dude in a month. Whatever the case is, it regularly has conversations that just don't make any sense, and not because of weird references you might not know, but pure incorrect grammar, syntax, or replies that have no relation to what was just said. It's maddening.
The combat is such good fun with brilliant spritework, then they throw in mechs and you think "Oh baby here we go", but they fuck it. Combat inside your gear is tedious as shit. Your deathblows learned in normal fights allow you to do more moves when in the mech, but just using any of these moves requires you to do a series of weak shit attacks to build the power to perform a deathblow. It sounds kinda cool at first, but quickly becomes a chore on top of managing fuel as well as your health. Every fight inside your gears was an ordeal. They ruined giant robots.
I realise I have interchangeably used gears/mechs above. The game likes to do this too with all its various factions and races, or even characters with 2 or 3 names. This gets done seemingly at random and I had to go googling every time to check which person/faction/race they were referring to. At this point I still do not know exactly what Kislev, Zeboim, and Aveh are. It disnae matter. I'm done.
Disc 2 lmao
At one point during a lengthy visual novel part, I went "SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LET ME KARATE CHOP A GUY" out loud.
Playing it feels like treading treacle. I shouldn't have tortured myself by continuing on hours and hours after I lost all interest. I would usually drop something like that these days, but I had to know. I had to see what the fuss was about. Everybody who ever told me this was great should give me ten quid. How dare you?!
The game is spitting bible shit at me, and it just hits nothing. Lots of terms you know, but they feel empty. I want to blame the dodgy translation, but god (wahey) knows how accurate any of it is, because a quick google brings up either how it was painstakingly done to be as faithful (another one) as possible, or chucked together by one dude in a month. Whatever the case is, it regularly has conversations that just don't make any sense, and not because of weird references you might not know, but pure incorrect grammar, syntax, or replies that have no relation to what was just said. It's maddening.
The combat is such good fun with brilliant spritework, then they throw in mechs and you think "Oh baby here we go", but they fuck it. Combat inside your gear is tedious as shit. Your deathblows learned in normal fights allow you to do more moves when in the mech, but just using any of these moves requires you to do a series of weak shit attacks to build the power to perform a deathblow. It sounds kinda cool at first, but quickly becomes a chore on top of managing fuel as well as your health. Every fight inside your gears was an ordeal. They ruined giant robots.
I realise I have interchangeably used gears/mechs above. The game likes to do this too with all its various factions and races, or even characters with 2 or 3 names. This gets done seemingly at random and I had to go googling every time to check which person/faction/race they were referring to. At this point I still do not know exactly what Kislev, Zeboim, and Aveh are. It disnae matter. I'm done.
Disc 2 lmao
At one point during a lengthy visual novel part, I went "SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LET ME KARATE CHOP A GUY" out loud.