probably just got unlucky but there were at least two separate times i killed all of the enemies in a room and the door didn’t open, walked around in circles with the music still in action mode for probably 20 minutes each time figuring i missed an enemy or switch or something. nope, just bugged.

all in all it’s okay, gets points for the soundtrack and then promptly loses them for your run of the mill video game bullshit; having to replay large portions if you die at the wrong times, an unneeded weapon/player leveling system, weapon imbalance (railgun is stupidly op against anything with greater than zero health that it makes the plasma gun functionally useless, not to mention the pistol), a few enemies that seem to serve purely as bullet sponges, and the aforementioned rare but deeply irritating bugs

far weaker start than pmd2 that goes on for a bit too long but eventually gets up to proper levels of quality after 7ish hours. there are a few moments in this game story-wise i think i like even more than similar moments in sky and it (mostly) plays better than sky but i still prefer sky because i haven't been that impressed with the music and visual direction of the series post-ds

also yeah, it's really difficult to ignore how weak this one starts whereas with sky it's not as hard to shrug off like 2-ish hours that isn't even at the very beginning

also also sky's postgame runs laps around this one's