Recent reviews by Trace

Got to the 'ending' and I can tell there's a lot more to be done, but I don't have the time or desire to go back and try to solve everything. I really like the puzzles, but when I don't have a plan I feel like I waste runs, which can be quite long irl time. Coupled with the fact that all the animations feel so slow, I almost feel like I'm playing a gacha game designed to take as long as possible without doing anything.

Love the puzzles, love the rogue-lite elements, don't love them combined as they are here

OLD REVIEW:
I'm told that I'll get out of the 'tutorial' section of the game after about 200 hours, but I don't think I have any desire to play that long before it 'starts to get good'.

The menus are confusing, I really don't know what I'm doing and what I should or shouldn't be focusing on, enemies currently die in one melee hit and so I've never been in trouble of dying, the pickup item to heal a robot mission I had recently had the popup too small so I had to watch a video on what was even going on.

UPDATE:
300 hours later things are making more sense. The gameplay loop is fun if not the most engaging, it's 'how many things can you explode at once'. The story is fine, outside of the story missions I have no attachments to any of the name characters, so some of the beats don't really affect me, and some of the story missions feel like I should know more then I do.

Veteran players are helpful, but sometimes forget that they have a lot of the cool things unlocked, so some of the frames and weapons are underwhelming while players are hyping them up. Friendly bunch though.

Learning to bullet jump(I think that's the term) made gameplay feel a lot more fun, which is why this has become my brain-off game while watching a movie.

I'd say fun gameplay, story is meh, use a wiki to figure out how to build frames (plenty are not available), the QnA chat is pretty good, I don't regret my time spent thus far and I'll continue, but wouldn't really recommended it. It's like, I don't feel like I would have missed a fantastic game if I had never come back to it

I normally love roguelike and -lite, and wanted to try it after hearing all the praise for it. It did not click, felt incredibly boring and repetitive.

I'm happy for those that love it, but it was not my game

I personally find the difficulty a little wack (yes, even after grabbing the dlc goodies), and I'm running into frame drops and other performance issues on my PC.

I think if you have no performance issues in the base game you should be good here. And how you will find the bosses depends on how you think of the last 6 or so bosses in the base game. I really didn't like them there, and it feels more of the same here.

An amazing game marred by frame drops, crashes, samey side dungeons and bosses, and a considerable spike near the end game in difficulty.

Once they get the frame drops and crashes fixed, Id recommend it even with other complaints. But as it is, it is completely random whether you will have issues or not. I've a very beefy machine and have had issues constantly, but friends with less powerful machines have had no issues until recently, so good luck!

Played and refunded, it seems like a great game if you've two friends to join in on playing!

I found myself getting somewhat motion sick from the ADS, and just felt like I was almost having fun.

Will likely pick this up on sale after a few bug fixes, but it was hard to justify keeping it on release

Guys, it's really good