Man it is hard to review this game. I think the loving crafted tongue in cheek adaption of the Pinnichio story into some apocalyptic world with factions and a bunch of varied settings while incredibly ridiculous, is really charming. They put a lot of work into forcing as many references or conversions of the original work as they could and I just really appreciate that. The characters just slide into the description I can only summarize as “that’s neat”. Everyone looks so pretty too and not just in a horny way like other games. Just really nice to look at the world and chill with the characters and everyone is just sickeningly nice to each other. I think that’s alright from time to time.
Level design is also really great. Its a really linear game but I think that’s great because when they give you branching paths they don’t want you to feel lost for too long so they turn into dead ends very quick. Enemy placement is really good and never felt like an overly frustrating experience.
That said the combat is clunky in that old ps3 game sort of way where they think they had something clever but didn’t really tie it together completely, but what that opens up is the ability to come up with an incredible amount of cheese to tackle hard bosses if you can’t be bothered to learn the parry reaction timings. And i really missed playing a game i could break. So even though i think it just barely deserves it. I’ll drop 4 stars on this game for just letting me have fun with it.