Posted on: November 21, 2022

MotherKojiro
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Great, but WAY Too Long
I really wanted to love this one, but I can really only like it. It's a great island adventure with tons of exploration, and a base of operations filled with people I really grew to care about, especially the titular Dana, who is warm and caring and just adorably weird. The action was excellent (once you figure out how to map the buttons in a sane way) with perfect guarding/dodging to spice things up, and skills no longer take an eternity to master. The plot is balls-to-the-wall crazy, but I think that fits a series that's always been less about story and more about running around, exploding strange monsters with a sword while electric guitars squeal in the background. Speaking of which, this is one of the best soundtracks the series has had in a long time; it does a better job of treading the line of hard rock and coke-fueled J-rock from the most intense anime ever. Unfortunately, it's at least 40 hours longer than it needs to be. You have constant raids on your village, and they are ALWAYS right in the middle of a dungeon; they're scripted, so ANY other time could've been chosen for them to happen. They're a bit like tower defense, but you actually control your characters, and they aren't all that bad, but they're really unnecessary and badly placed. On top of that, you have hunts, which are similar, and night missions, where you get thrown into a different version of an existing dungeon, but with half a dozen miniboss-level baddies chasing you at any given time. The game has some pretty bad pacing issues in the second half, too; I was almost always under the recommended level, sometimes significantly, and I'm not one to run away from fights. At the very least, I didn't have to do absolutely everything to get the best ending, even if that ending did make me want to punch something. Overall, I'm glad to have experienced this game, but it could REALLY use an editor grind down the excess content and meandering plot.
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