Was really excited for this game, but it didnt really live up to all the praise I'd heard. As a photography game, it claims to be about artistic expression, but in practice its just a really moody scavenger hunt.

The 10min time limit discourages you from taking your time for a good photo. And sometimes you need multiple items in a photo, which is only possible from a single angle. Therefore, I never felt encouraged to get creative. I was just ticking boxes off a list.

Admittedly, the atmosphere is strong, and interesting things are happening, but you are never asked to photograph these interesting things. Just mundane items - spray cans, sticky notes, some glowsticks.

And lastly, the game has geometry glitches where you fall through the map, or are inexplicably launched 30ft into the air. All in all, I really wanted to like this game but was disappointed :/

what an incredibly underwhelming and irritating experience. functionally awful from a gameplay standpoint, fisheye lens breaks the game once you get it outside of the objectives that require other lens, and most of those end up becoming egregious scavenger hunts with slow movement speeds and ugly environments. most of the objectives require abysmally specific placement with how you take pictures of things, while also most others are ostensibly broken and wont let you by even though you absolutely took a picture of the thing that was needed (i had to take a picture of the word "cops" and the game absolutely wouldnt let me go by unless i took a picture so fucking up close to the word that it wasnt even visible anymore).

the "story" is vague gen zed doomer stuff played out through environment only, but like others have said, there is no way to be invested in any of this because there is no emotional connection here, outside of the similarities of neoliberalism in reality. a lot of what this game tackles is surface level and doesnt actually bother getting into the roots of anything.

"Hey I remember the DoA volleyball spinoffs. They were silly but kinda fun. Wonder if they came out on Steam or something."

> this one's a gacha

"Oh. I mean, I fucking hate gachas but maybe b00ba is the missing ingredient that will change my mind."

Nope lmao, couldn't even spend an hour on it. I guess that settles it, gachas are just not for me.

I have forced myself to finish this game so I can properly warn everybody.

The graphics and music are good, and the gameplay itself it´s kind of fun but a little bit too repetitive, full of minigames that are hit or miss. But every good thing this game does it´s ruined by the plot and the writing.

It´s overly convoluted and doesn´t understand the appeal of the OG game. If you didn´t like the whispers before get ready for something 1000 times worse. They ruin some of the most iconic moments in gaming history.

The writing is even worse than in part one, everyone reverted to being oversimplified versions of themselves. Childish, overacted, and annoying, they are no longer the characters we used to love, especially Sephiroth. He is basically Ansen, appears out of nowhere says something cryptic, and leaves. The character is completely ruined.

Stay away from this game if you have any respect or love for the OG and good storytelling in general.