Booting up this game was one of my biggest mistakes of 2024. I wanted to study for my next exam this month because "why not let's start the year with one less exam" but then I try this game out and suddenly I have clocked 13 hours and done all the routes of this game and it's still not enough. I need more. It's kinda sad for me knowing we don't get to see more games in the series with this direction in gameplay, because it's easily my favourite as of now (I still prefer LR overall, mind you, but this one is a close second).

Mission quality is straight up amazing, customization is insanely good as well, replayability-well if after 3 routes I felt like I wanted more (and there is, with hard mode and some missions left to unlock) that should speak volumes on how replayable this shit is, and overall it's insane how much of a glowup this game is from base 4!

They just saw the base and said "yeah make all the areas open and make the player go batshit insane with the builds, so much he can't even see himself on the screen for how much you can chainboost and overboost yourself". Game also features Arms Forts which are these giant machine bosses which is not a new concept per se but the way they implemented them in the game just wipes mostly everything they went for before this. Don't you ever give me "mAsSiVe Mt" after Spirit of Motherwill istg.

Sadly, chapter 4 missions are kinda frustrating and not as fun as the other ones, but it's absolutely forgivable imo for a game this experimental. What a mistake, man, how do I study without thinking about this game for the next month???

Reviewed on Jan 06, 2024


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