giving this a 6/10 before finishing it for following up one of the best boss fights in a video game with an hours worth of fetch quests fuck you
EDIT: i beat the game and had no idea what to think, its sort of a mess that is obviously confused about what it wants to be. theres some great ideas here stuck in a misguided package that isn't particularly good at being an action game and is hardly an rpg, with gameplay dumbed down for a wild goose chase of mass appeal according to a boardroom. i can say i liked the characters but they're let down by not existing within the constraints of a jrpg party, especially jill who is sidelined so pathetically.
at the very least i can say this is better than the absolute nonsense that is 13 and its successor 7R, and could have potentially been great if it wasn't misdirected into being a slightly above average playstation exclusive
EDIT: i beat the game and had no idea what to think, its sort of a mess that is obviously confused about what it wants to be. theres some great ideas here stuck in a misguided package that isn't particularly good at being an action game and is hardly an rpg, with gameplay dumbed down for a wild goose chase of mass appeal according to a boardroom. i can say i liked the characters but they're let down by not existing within the constraints of a jrpg party, especially jill who is sidelined so pathetically.
at the very least i can say this is better than the absolute nonsense that is 13 and its successor 7R, and could have potentially been great if it wasn't misdirected into being a slightly above average playstation exclusive