It's a very frustrating game to sit through, because you'll be watching very uninteresting cardboard cutout characters talk for as long or longer than gameplay. Ys has never had a MORE intrusive story. In addition, the boat combat is really boring and feels weird for me.
I enjoy Karja and the combat system for the most part, but it feels sort of like an overly generous version of Sekiro because you can get away with parrying almost everything in the game and standing in place, even moreso than in previous titles with flash guard because those games weren't designed entirely around the mechanic.
I'm on chapter 6 (iirc), and I feel like the game still hasn't hit its stride, with two memorable dungeon-like segments so far. It feels like it has a continuous infancy status where it feels like the whole game is JRPG tutorial. Also I'm not sure if it's just the PS5 edition being unoptimized but there is some nasty ass built in delay to the game that wasn't present in IX.
Might come back to it if I get bored but my backlog is too big to spend time when I'm not having fun ATM.
I enjoy Karja and the combat system for the most part, but it feels sort of like an overly generous version of Sekiro because you can get away with parrying almost everything in the game and standing in place, even moreso than in previous titles with flash guard because those games weren't designed entirely around the mechanic.
I'm on chapter 6 (iirc), and I feel like the game still hasn't hit its stride, with two memorable dungeon-like segments so far. It feels like it has a continuous infancy status where it feels like the whole game is JRPG tutorial. Also I'm not sure if it's just the PS5 edition being unoptimized but there is some nasty ass built in delay to the game that wasn't present in IX.
Might come back to it if I get bored but my backlog is too big to spend time when I'm not having fun ATM.