you ever get 60 hours into the 4th entry (i had a wii u) of a series you have a long history of liking, but you're finding yourself reaching for auto-battle and auto-optimise and beelining through the main quest because you just feel drained?

im done with the 20 year long chain attacks that all play out the same, the comically bad villains with horrendous dialogue, the music that feels like all the composers went "another xenoblade game, sure", this ai generated journey through "maktha wildwoods" or "erythia sea", your ethels and your miyabis and your mwambas or the countless side characters i have lost track of, the 6 buttons in combat that all exist to be pushed in very unsatisfying ways, the classes in which you pick your favourite shade of blue, red and green (they're all the same shade of blue, red and green)

to be fair i also didnt care for any of 2's plot or characters either. or x's for that matter. the worlds/combat/music there still felt top notch and i came out of those games still greatly having enjoyed them. those games actually felt fun to play. but i was also a good deal younger so idk

this has shaped up to be my danganronpa v3 i think. that was ironically a game i really liked, but my experience with this just reminds me of how a lot of people talk about that. im a few hours into chapter 6 and im thinking of calling it quits. idk. not marked this abandoned yet because i havent decided.

that one sequence everyone talks about is legitimately that good though, and pretty much the only time i felt i was getting some pay-off from this game