painful review to give. wonderful story. ichiban and friends are incredible new protagonists and the world is just as much a joyous love letter to videogames as it always is, but it wasnt enough to wash the dog piss taste the 80ish hours of the not fully realized combat system gave me.

there was WAY too many fights in this game where i tried every element / attack type and an enemy resisted everything. i might be an absolute moron who misunderstood something, but it wasnt infrequent for me to come to the conclusion my best bet was to set my guys to autoattack and walk away from my computer for 5-10 minutes.