I have a ridiculously long list of games that I want to play so I finally got a copy of this game.

I am about 3 hours into and and Wow, it is really great. The save system is a bit wonky so about an hour of that three hours was being annoyed getting past the first boss. You are only allowed to save at save points and the first save point you get to is after the first boss. So I died on him/it twice.

Most of what you do leading up to the first boss is just learning the mechanics of the game. So having to redo that three times was … annoying… but that makes you learn fight mechanics, so I appreciated that after I got him “down”.

Visually the game is great. The combat system is really intuitive and the game uses camera angles that are a bit jarring at first. Sometimes the camera angles feel like old school 90s arcade games. The aesthetic of the game is awesome.

The game seems to be very deliberately rolling out the story, so the experience so far has been very hack and slash. I am curious how that will play out. I am hoping that the story gets more involved the more I play the game.

Like I said I am only three hours into it and so far it has been fun!

  • IWW4@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    So here I am much further along in the game than when I started this thread and holy shit I am done with this mess.

    The game mechanics are maddening, The save, travel and death mechanics are just utter shit. The vagueness of the story and the endless wandering around just isn’t worth it.

    Finally I just can’t deal with the best visual in the game thus being 2B’s rock hard ass. I love a rock hard ass a much as the next guy but good lord I cant take the upskirt views of this thing seriously…

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      There’s a little bit of vindication in having a shared opinion, but also kind of sad that the game ended up feeling like a waste of time.

      In terms of being fun while also approaching some of the same robo-philosophy story beats, I did find Stellar Blade really fun. That game exists mainly for the combat, although you get lots of costumes; so it’s a nice approach if you find one given outfit oversexualized.