Dude makes meme games that (tries too hard to) sound fun in concept but the actual gameplay consists of "story mission 1: kill 10 type A fishes; story mission 2: kill 10 type B fishes; story mission 3: kill 10 type C fishes..." Bruh.

The evolution system should sound fun too but the first two ability you get is a meaningless radar sight and getting tiny little bonus material drops for killing enemies if you grind hours for the said material to upgrade this ability. It's not a shark simulator, it's a Sisyphus simulator. Also why would I want to stay hours in some eye-hurting dirty murky industrial waste swamp if I wanted to play as a shark... I couldn't even get a good diving experience from it.

The animation is great, but if you don't particularly like playing puzzle game with a timer and confusing control, I recommend simply watching the story on youtube. The puzzle game isn't just something that break up the pacing. It takes up 90% of the playtime and it gets pretty frustrating even on Easy.

The story itself isn't great either. It's repetitive and the two main female characters barely gets any characterisation. You choices made throughout the game make practically no difference except for the endings. The MC is always panicking on screen and you won't get to see any real romance until the very end. You won't even get to know what it was in them that attracted the MC nor what did the girls see in the MC. So if you're looking for a dating sim with hot anime waifu and harmless casual mini-games like I did, better look elsewhere.

I like an RPG in which you can kill anyone at anytime, and somehow the story manages to move along with your insanity, but I had a hard time making myself care about the plot in this game. I liked some of the character interaction but like many other Western RPGs I'm given an MC that I do not understand or relate to but somehow I have to roleplay as her. I liked the criticism of capitalism but I haven't been given a reason why I should care about this fictional world at all. If it were less story-driven and dialogue-heavy, but more a mindless exploration/shooter, I would have liked it more I guess.

The story was so barebone it hardly motivate me to grind through all the daily farming and basic ARPG combat after 20 hours of playing (1/3 of the playthrough). I loved RF3 many years ago but perhaps I have outgrown this kind of farming sim. It could have been my favourite game if I were to play it 20 years ago. But now it just feel like a mobile gacha game with more intensive grinding and chores. I felt exhausted. Maybe RF3 was really just better than this sequel, but it was too many years ago so I can't really judge.

Not as bad as people make it to be really. I found the gameplay to be more fun than other typical Tactical JRPG. I think the triangular all-out attack is a great feature because when you play smartly, it makes the gameplay much more dynamic and snappy and you can beat a stage with surprisingly few turns. But this mechanics also overshadows most of the other RPG mechanics in the game including the persona system, making it more like a puzzle game than an RPG. The last 1/4 of the game also felt dragged out because it's basically just wave after wave of boss rush without anything new or challenging.