I got to play this game a few days before launch and I'm already 15 hours in, I can definitely say that this game is literally a suikoden game. There are many things you'll recognize if you're a suikoden fan like me. The difficulty has been improved A LOT which was basically the weak point of suikoden. I really like lian her conversations they're so good, tbh I don't get the translation hate I think it's really fun, don't listen to the haters they have brainrot and are actually insane about it. I don't think I'll like seign and jowa better than jowy and riou though. This might be the best looking HD2D game so far, the game doesn't have annoying filters like octopath and triangle strategy, it's easy to read what's going on the screen unlike squares HD2D games. the characters are very expressive to be a HD2D game which I really like, it does a lot to make things feel alive. The blur might be annoying sometimes especially when they blur the place you're walking to, bruh why blur the thing you're focusing on it's so annoying, it feels so uncomfortable to look at it's like having bad eyesight ( I found out I can turn it off yippie ). I will update my review when I get further

Bruh I'm actually giving a hoyoverse game an almost perfect score... I LOVE penacony, I really liked vibing here the first hours of this arc. The story was actually interesting and I loved how unique this arc was. I didn't expect this to be so good I just picked game up again because I was curious how it has evolved since then, I'm glad I did it. This arc is the best one yet and I'm curious how it'll continue, when the next update comes I'll be there at day ONE!!! It took me 3 days to get here actually, I stopped playing a few hours in the jarilo arc when the game first released.