This review contains spoilers
(didn't play the first one)
There's allot I love about this game but gets brought down with some personal things I didn't enjoy.
For starters the ost and characters are amazing. I love the build up for rindos character on week 2, he was always indecisive and never spoke up about anything, we would see the main party communicate with each other and he would be on his phone or just thinking to himself. It all culminates at the end of the week when the man rindo looked up to was actually a fraud and never meant anything he said. Or fret not taking anything seriously in fear he would go through the emotions of losing someone again. All the stuff he would say to kanon meant nothing since he never said what he truly felt. Nagi didn't have an arc for herself but since she was so good at reading people she would always be there to support the group when they were feeling down. Ost of the year they went hard with it.
Now for the things I didn't enjoy as much was the combat. From the beginning i never really vibe with it, it really felt like i was mashing most of the times. I was told that as you kept getting party members the combat gets better (which I do agree with) but i feel like it was already a bit to late. You get neku on either day 3 or 4 (cant remember) on the last week. More characters means more chances of building up groove which was the most fun part of the gameplay for me. More pin options is always nice but I never branched out to different pins since I never needed to (on hard). Another big one was definitely Kubo. He felt like he was there just to be a twist villain. What makes it worse is that everyone forgets about him so what's even the point of him being a villain. There's smaller stuff I dislike which are not being able to fast travel and the side quests system. The food system is a really cool idea but having to walk back and forth instead of fast traveling to the shop was pretty bad. I know each spot is locked for story reasons but maybe make it if you visited the place once a day you can fast travel to it which would reset each day. Having to redo a day to if you missed a quest is pretty bad especially without an option to skip the dialogue. Lets say you say fuck it and miss a quest the amount of other quest you lock yourself out of is insane. I reset a day in fear that would happen and no skip feature made it a worse experience. Resolving the first game plot in this one was not the best idea at least for me. I get that the early fans wanted a resolution after the cliffhanger ending but I just don't have any inclination to play the first one now. I know the reunion and other non neo characters interactions are small in time but I just didn't care.
Overall I really did enjoy this games characters and story. i think my experience would have been a bit better if i played the first one but oh well. I do feel bad for ranking it lowish but the things I didn't like really stayed through most of the game. It gets me sad that this game underperformed because I would love to see more from the angels and what Minamimoto is cooking. Anyways Shibuya Survivor clears
There's allot I love about this game but gets brought down with some personal things I didn't enjoy.
For starters the ost and characters are amazing. I love the build up for rindos character on week 2, he was always indecisive and never spoke up about anything, we would see the main party communicate with each other and he would be on his phone or just thinking to himself. It all culminates at the end of the week when the man rindo looked up to was actually a fraud and never meant anything he said. Or fret not taking anything seriously in fear he would go through the emotions of losing someone again. All the stuff he would say to kanon meant nothing since he never said what he truly felt. Nagi didn't have an arc for herself but since she was so good at reading people she would always be there to support the group when they were feeling down. Ost of the year they went hard with it.
Now for the things I didn't enjoy as much was the combat. From the beginning i never really vibe with it, it really felt like i was mashing most of the times. I was told that as you kept getting party members the combat gets better (which I do agree with) but i feel like it was already a bit to late. You get neku on either day 3 or 4 (cant remember) on the last week. More characters means more chances of building up groove which was the most fun part of the gameplay for me. More pin options is always nice but I never branched out to different pins since I never needed to (on hard). Another big one was definitely Kubo. He felt like he was there just to be a twist villain. What makes it worse is that everyone forgets about him so what's even the point of him being a villain. There's smaller stuff I dislike which are not being able to fast travel and the side quests system. The food system is a really cool idea but having to walk back and forth instead of fast traveling to the shop was pretty bad. I know each spot is locked for story reasons but maybe make it if you visited the place once a day you can fast travel to it which would reset each day. Having to redo a day to if you missed a quest is pretty bad especially without an option to skip the dialogue. Lets say you say fuck it and miss a quest the amount of other quest you lock yourself out of is insane. I reset a day in fear that would happen and no skip feature made it a worse experience. Resolving the first game plot in this one was not the best idea at least for me. I get that the early fans wanted a resolution after the cliffhanger ending but I just don't have any inclination to play the first one now. I know the reunion and other non neo characters interactions are small in time but I just didn't care.
Overall I really did enjoy this games characters and story. i think my experience would have been a bit better if i played the first one but oh well. I do feel bad for ranking it lowish but the things I didn't like really stayed through most of the game. It gets me sad that this game underperformed because I would love to see more from the angels and what Minamimoto is cooking. Anyways Shibuya Survivor clears