I won't say it's bad, but it's also not really grabbing my attention from the characters or world and I'm just not super invested after about 6 hours in. While I appreciate the idea of the card combat it just feels a bit sloggy and isn't interesting enough for me. You can build a deck but that interaction is kind of small and you have to actively time the card uses in the middle of battle and draw them so is different than say MTG or Hearthstone type games.
As a remaster I think it's mostly good, you have options to increase the speed up to 3x for in combat and out of combat separately and if you really want to just play for the story you can turn on 1 hit KO or turn off encounters as you do a bunch of back tracking for side quests. My only real complaint is that these options can only be toggled out of combat via pause menu, I wish the speed up was like Trails where you can hold down a trigger and speed up as you want.
While it's a Monolith Soft game it doesn't appear Tetsuya Takahashi has any credits on the game (writer/director/producer) so if you were going in there expecting to have a somewhat similar vibe to the Xeno games (any of them) then I don't think you'll find it.
As a remaster I think it's mostly good, you have options to increase the speed up to 3x for in combat and out of combat separately and if you really want to just play for the story you can turn on 1 hit KO or turn off encounters as you do a bunch of back tracking for side quests. My only real complaint is that these options can only be toggled out of combat via pause menu, I wish the speed up was like Trails where you can hold down a trigger and speed up as you want.
While it's a Monolith Soft game it doesn't appear Tetsuya Takahashi has any credits on the game (writer/director/producer) so if you were going in there expecting to have a somewhat similar vibe to the Xeno games (any of them) then I don't think you'll find it.