My personal gripes (hot takes?):
- too much of the game's length is padded out with the open world exploration feature; the way its activities are designed made me lose interest tbh as more and more areas were unlocked (e.g. Chad can gtfo). Like I get it, this is how this section from the original is, but personally I would enjoy a more linear chain of events to follow
- questions you have about everything are barely answered by the end in a satisfying manner; following similarly in style towards the ending of Remake, I wished the devs would give more clear explanations and answers to the questions and mere speculations players have about how the story ends up playing out IN THE GAME (rather than leaving them in an Ultimania companion book???). I ended this game still having more questions than answers. And the entire discussion revolving the plot since the game's release is based on speculation from countless different players and how they understood it from their own perspective. This is why I wish the game itself gave more of those objective answers
- Zack's story and gameplay is stretched out way too much and with too little substance to begin with. Like I would argue he doesn't even deserve to be part of the main poster art?? I love Zack as much as anyone else but gawd I honestly felt he was done a little dirty in this game. And I wasn't too satisfied with his conclusion in the game as well... just like, ah okay, cool

What I love:
- everything else, and it's all done so damn well (don't have much to explain on it as it'd probably be a regurgitation of countless other reviews at this point). Just WOW claps

Note: I do prefer Remake more