Dropped it after a few weeks procrastinating playing because the more I play the more it feels like a chore. The story looks promising and the visuals are great, but its pace is so slow that I always find myself wishing I was playing something else.

And what even is the combat. You just sit there waiting for your characters’ mechas to recharge so you can hit the destroy button again and be done with it. Combat missions are mandatory and don’t add much to the story.

One thing I must applaud though, the game’s digital manual is amazing. I wish more games paid attention to the manual.

I get why people have this game in such high regard and I really wish I could put up with the repetitive combat and slow pacing and get blown away by the story, but I just can’t.