Steam Community :: Chris P

26.0 hrs on record

This game is just disappointing.

For a game set in a dystopian world, none of the characters act like they have gone through a lot. All of their personality has been dumped by cliches and tropes which breaks the purpose of having a post apocalyptic world. For starters, your character and his/her partners throughout the game has no depth at all aside for being disposable prisoners but the game does not explain how you got into that situation in the first place. I've gone through a point where I just skip dialogue and cutscenes just so I could beat up monsters. The villain on this game are also disposable. its like you're watching dora the explorer but swiper keeps on changing per episode. The threat of the ash or whatever they are running from is just dumped as information as an opening to the game but you don't see any people dying, getting affected, or even being endangered by the said ash. same with ash aragamis, these creatures should be the bane of existence for the game as the game tells you that "get hit by one of them, you die". However it became a hollow threat cause they never explained how the corruption ♥♥♥♥ works. To make it worse, it introduced an immediate counter for said corruption so the threat in them are gone aside from looking like a badass. So for people who will buy this game for the plot, just don't.

Who cares about plot anyways, this game is all about that gameplay right? well, the gameplay's entertaining for the first 100 mission then it becomes stale at the end. For reference: Before dropping the game, I finished half of rank 6 and killed all 5 ash aragamis. I know that there are more challenging foes ahead, but this game bored the ♥♥♥♥ out of me.

Lets start where they got ♥♥♥♥ right. The enemy design, the design of the monsters are undeniably gorgeous. they feel like a threat once you see them and the physiology of the enemies are thought out well like the aligator with a turbine in its back in which spins when it produces electricity. The combat is very fluid and I did not feel any clunkiness with my character's movement. It is perfect for a game that's catered for a more fast paced monster hunter game. The burst mechanic is also a merit as it changes the gameplay of your weapon. this makes it so that you have a lot of playstyle to explore within a weapon so that it offers variety for 1trick ponies out there. The game also makes that you need to devour so that you maintain this form, but devouring makes you vulnerable, it is a high risk-high reward mechanic that keeps the gameplay satisfying.

Now I've said every positive thing in this game so its time to ♥♥♥♥ on it.

The game is repetitive. It does not take 5 hours into the game for them to reuse another monster with changed element and 1 or 2 more moveset added to their arsenal. The game is not hard at all. Most of enemy hits are telegraphed and their moveset is very limited.

Having companions break the game as well since they are so tanky, they take aggro from the enemy, they heal you, and they deal damage as well. 90% of the enemies in my playthrough (halfway of rank 6) I did not even bother to learn their movesets, openings and weaknesses, I just spam them for 1minute and 30 seconds and they die.

The way that they design the burst and how to increase them is frustrating. In this game, you can burst through devouring but you can only level it up to level 3 by using special rounds you get from devouring.You then need to link with teamate which is available after an amount of time passes by. After linking, you need to use the rounds to your teamate so that you can also upgrade your burst level. In a fast paced game like this, your teamates tend to colide with each other's models which makes your aim assisted burst rounds act wild and it even sometimes target the ally behind your back. It is very frustrating and leveling your burst from 1-3 does not give a significant advantage apart from the passives that is given your gun, shield, and weapon. It is annoying that I need to deal with it so that I could efficiently hunt the monster. But as I've said, The game is made for 10 yr old kids so you could ignore this mechanic through your entire playthrough.

The game Gets harder when the enemies that spams projectiles without any telegraphs are introduced. There are certain enemies that spam projectiles that deals a lot of damage and can hardly even be seen. Sometimes, it appears that your character model is out of the hitbox but it will still clip you and deal a lot of damage. Most of my downs are given by enemies that has this one shot abilities that has no wind up at all (usually in ash aragami fights). Ash aragamis have the potential to go on a burst mode when they devour and hit someone, like the players do. This mechanic is interesting since the enemies are also taking risks so that they could power up like the players. But, they transition to burst regardless of who they hit. about 80% of the time that an ash aragami goes into burst in my playthrough, comes from my AI Teamate getting hit, not me. This is so frustrating that I had to hunt solo missions after rank 4 since I could not take the frustration of playing well and still getting punished by it. Removing your teamates makes the game hard since there are scenarios that they spawn small mobs around the target or the game just straight up gives you 2 large enemies at the same time.

Overall this game has its problems to the mechanic, game design, world building, and most importantly, plot. But I would be lying if I tell that I did not enjoy the first few hours of this game.

6/10, too bad 7 is the passing score

Posted 10 August, 2022.

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