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I finished the expansion and sadly for the first time, I didn't enjoy it.

But first of all, I cannot say everything was bad. Music, enviroment designs, character designs, dungeons and trials. All were truly amazing. Dungeons/trials difficulty compared to previous expansions was increased for normal story players, but had enough balance to keep them fun.

However, sadly all of this greatness is wrapped in poorly written story, which very clearly is divided in 2 halfs. There might be small spoilers, but I will do my best to not spoil anything major. First half, is what I describe as Pokemon babysitter adventure. We go around Tural collecting "gym badges" and in essense watch over Lamat. However, its boring, extremly boring. She doesn't grow as a person, instead gets really weird power strikes for the sake of not involving us the player (Someone has to push the story forward, but we cannot do it, we can only stand next to her... idk why, just reasons) and every aspect of the first half is focused on extending the time we spend in the expansion. Even if halfs are relatively even, the first one seems like it will never end, because it literally is that boring, 10h in and you still won't encounter ANY fight.

Second half is much more interesting. Story seems more cohesive and actually attempts to involve the player into some action. While Lamat is still quite prominent part of this half. We at least get some breaks from her, which you have to trust me... It was needed. Overall the second half could stand on its own and in my opinion too much attention was put into first half than the second one. For me the story ratio should be 30% first half and 70% second half.. but well we got more like 60% first and 40% second. For obvious reasons I won't mention any characters that appear in second half. There happens a lot and got really disappointed when in last Trial Lamat rejoins the fight... even tho VERY CLEARLY, She was "KICKED OUT" and they never explained how she was able to do it... I guess sheer power of will can override "Code"

Overall I would rate the first half as 3/10. Really boring and uninspired piece of writting. While second half as 6/10 or even 7/10.

Scions for once were totally useless.. but THEY HAD TO, include them. Like ALL OF THEM. We didn't need them, they didn't do that much and they feel extremly forced into this expanion... Same with certain flying creatues from previous expansion... I guess SE has different definition of break/vacation...

I am leaving a negative review, but I still have hope. We still have 2 years worth of content to get. Maybe, just maybe the content prepared in future updates will be that much better that would somehow explain poor writting of the first half, which really tainted my overall experience. I am still waiting for my vacational adventure, I hope post DT questline will focus more on it and if it does, I will comeback and change my review.

Its difficult to give this game unified score out of 10, so in brief review I will separate it into categories. Keep in mind, im shortly after finishing the main story and currently doing epilogue quests to reach true "endgame" by unlocking the highest difficulty levels.

Story 6/10- While I didn't hate it, It wasn't anything amazing. Just typical, "save the princess" story. The bad guys nearly winning, hero saves the day in the last moment. It would have been higher, but the game is technically a sequel to a franchise, some people recommended watching anime to get the idea of how the crew gathered together. I wish they spend a bit more time on it in game. There are "Fate episodes" quests that somewhat explain it ... but they are just walls of texts, without any animation or even gameplay (with few exceptions). So in short, watch anime, it might give you a better introduction

Secondly, the pacing is terrible. While at the start its decent. Later on there is no breathing room for a player, as if they were rushing to finish the story. There is no hype up to a final boss fight or rather its never ending. At certain point you will be going from boss fight to boss fight thinking its the last one. Just for them to drop "ohh noo, now we have to save this person", because the bad guy, despite losing is still pulling "haha, see you later, teleports away with friend" card 3x. Just really annoying.

Lastly... there is no explained character growth. Yes we as players, see lvl ups. distribute points etc. However, story doesn't reflect that. At the start we get our ass absolutely destroyed. Immediately get up for rescue mission. Get our ass beaten yet again, in the same spectacular fashion, just to find enemy yet again and now with the power of "friends we gathered during our journey" being directly delivered to us, we have a chance to fight. Even tho the enemy also gathered 10x more power. No training, no secret power we found. Just believe in yourself and strangers that you now call friends.

Gameplay 9/10- While story is slighly better than okay. Gameplay is for sure the dominating aspect of the game. I really enjoyed all the fights, the combat system is working well. Each character has their own unique play style. The AI team, is actually smart and supporting. There is a lot of endgame content and a lot of characters to be unlocked. If you want to max it out, you will spend hundreds of hours playing the game. And the only two minor issues I have, are :

1. Annoying camera lock- as if they tried to show you more during fights, but it actually does the opposite. with locking usually picking furthest enemy... instead the ont closest to you.

2. 1 or 2 boss mechanics... - it could be me or not. But there are some that I simply could not predict. Like laser beam going absolutely all over the place and you had to hope it won't hit you, because it would cover like 80% of the map. I would mostly die and wait for AI team to pick me up. There is probably a way to avoid it, I might just be blind to it right now.

Visuals 9/10- I really liked the visuals, they are very anime like. The enviroment looks absolutely gorgeous and perfectly fit the anime style of the characters. Honeslty, if they made anime the same way they doing those 3D rendered cutscenes. It would be the first 3D anime that I would accept with open hands. The game to cutscene transitions are also really smooth.


So in the end. In my opinion story is its weakest part. Interesting world, but not enough explored inside the game and a bit rushed, to call it amazing. I hope for future projects they will put a bit more love to story, than they did here. I will definitely play more to see the endgame content and how much it tests player's skill. Lastly I really recommend this game, purely for visuals and gameplay as its really fun.

10/10

Still good

While the gameplay and mechanics are mostly positive and fun. I can't say the same thing about servers. They use Leaseweb servers, known to be terrible in gaming area. One day it will be fine, the other you will get unstable connections and "trading "kills" where person already killed by you will still kill you. This gets especially terrible during the events.

Another negative point about this game... are the developers themselfes. The content released is somewhere around 10 80 10. Where first 10 is actual playable content, 80 is paid Skin DLCs and last 10 is bug fixing.

Up until recently, you were able to earn "premium currency" for simply playing, after day or 2 of playing you had a cool character skin. Now they set a limit to like 50 per week, which would take 20 weeks to get any cool character skin.... Which obviously encourages even more microtransations...

Game is fun, but sadly greed is ruining the whole experience. The focus is clearly put on Skin DLCs and it takes over 2 years for new boss to appear in game and many of the glitches takes months if not years (some fun glitches have been in game for over a year now..)

Amazing game, amazing music, worth all the money

Cool, but the gameplay gets really repetitive, more random factor to ranked would be nice

WELL.... CS:GO 2... a joke of CS:GO's glory. Small graphical lifting and 128 tick servers would be enough... (Faceit proved years ago 128 tick servers work just fine with CS:GO 1) But valve decided to push further, rework a lot of mechanics that DIDN'T need reworking and essentially kill CS:GO by replacing it with CS:GO 2...

We have:
1. Legs that often cover your field of view when looking down... because they are coded without logic. Instead of standing model animation. We get randomized feet placement, so you cannot control where your feet land...
2. Solo troll can vote surrender and it goes through... despite full team saying no and you winning the game...
3. Weird shooting feel.. Kinda like its 3rd person, but its actually first. Hard to describe
4. Server performence worse than in CS:GO. If you sometimes had a feeling. Well I though I was behind cover. Its happening much more often that you think it should. They tried to be "smart" and pretend to give us 128 ticks. As someone told me. Servers are 64 ticks but only some information is 128 ticks... which obviously by the logic creates delays.

Still crap

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