I REALLY hate this game, and it is sad I must. I really wanted to like it, especially since I'm a huge fan of Akiba's Trip and I'm definitely a sucker for JRPGs so I guess you could at I had high expectations. Needless to say, I was very disappointed. The characters, while having pretty good designs, are mostly stereotypes of stereotypes that aren't worth caring for, especially since theyI REALLY hate this game, and it is sad I must. I really wanted to like it, especially since I'm a huge fan of Akiba's Trip and I'm definitely a sucker for JRPGs so I guess you could at I had high expectations. Needless to say, I was very disappointed. The characters, while having pretty good designs, are mostly stereotypes of stereotypes that aren't worth caring for, especially since they cant stop shouting meta jokes and slangs, even during dungeon exploration (Pinkun is the worst offender). Some people might like it but for me, it was just a cringe fest. Not to mention these dialogue cut scenes lasts way too long (there aren't even dialogue choices, which is something every RPGs needs to have). Because of this, I ended up skipping most of the dialogues. The story is okay for the most part but it builds up way too slow when it shouldn't and I just wasn't invested very much. Akihabara feels and looks soulless compared to the on in Akiba's Trip. There are few citizens in different colors with no faces to add a bit of life but it just fails because a lot of these just repeat the same animation, not doing much. All you do there is just run around, talk with story related NPCs and buy stuff. No mini-games, no interactions, nothing. Hell, most of Akihabara's iconic places are replaced with fake dumb names probably due to copyright. You can buy equipment in the form of clothing and accessories in item shops (and by shops I meant item menus) but they just mostly sell the same stuff as always. There are few upgrades for your melee weapons but there isn't a lot of purchasable weapons. And the costumes in the game are mostly DLCs. The graphics are like from a mid 2000s PS2 game, and it is not great. Especially since at time it can look pretty blurry.
The dungeons' designs sucks despite being based on delusional themes. They are just similar to Persona 4's dungeon designs, where you just go forward, maybe activate a few switches, keep going until you reach the boss. The enemies' designs are just recolored versions of themselves and trust me, you'll see them a lot. Some of the bosses can have a good design but is nothing special. The combat is a blatant ripoff of the Tales games' combat, but worse. It lacks any of the polish, weight, strategy or fun of the Tales games (Tales of Hearts R has a better combat than this game). During battle (which you can get the upper hand if you strike them first), you can block, dodge, use skills, attack, and command your teammates, but most of the time, you'll just keep spamming the attack buttons and a few useful skills, until the Imagine Mode fills up, which is very OP in boss battles (minor enemy fights can be done in less than 30 seconds with no skill required). Missions is what can you expect from an RPG (fetch these, kill those, talk to this person). You can't even accept them all, you can only accept one at a time, which sucks. The animations of your characters are pretty sluggish and aren't programmed well, with the prime example being the running animation. The only thing I liked from the game is the OST but it just isn't on par with Akiba's Trip's OST.
In conclusion, it just a bad RPG. Seeing people praising it, with one site even calling it "One of 2017's best RPG" (yeah, and The Order 1886 is 2015's best shooter) just blows my mind. If they were PS vita gamers, it's understandable considering that not a lot of games are coming to the Vita. But for the PS4 owners? Why waste your money on an overpriced low budget PRG when there's way better RPGs already out on the horizon like Persona, Tales, Dragon Quest, Tales, Yakuza, etc. with underrated ones like Atelier, Digimon and Utawarerumono. They should have just released the game the same year Trip was released because releasing it this year is just asking for trouble. It just lacks anything that made the Persona games, Tales games, and even Akiba's Trip special, and seeing that even Japan wasn't very impressed with the game, and barely even selling 20k copies, I guess it was already to be expected. This saddens me because I really expected much from Acquire and Xseed, but instead, is "Star Ocean 5" all over again, and it worries me of what will happen with the franchise. Do yourself a favor and don't buy this game. If you have a PS4, get Persona 5, Berseria, Nier Automata or Digimon. If you have a Vita, get trails of Cold Steel, Persona 4 Golden, Digimon (again), Atelier, or Caligula Effect. Avoid this game as possible, for it is just a massive downgrade from its predecessor in terms of gameplay (excluding the stripping), graphics, story, and content.… Expand
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