After fully finishing Stranger of Paradise and finishing all level 300 Chaos missions, I can safely say the game is actually pretty good. Not trolling.
The downsides I've encountered is that the story only starts to make sense when you are passed the first 40% of it, and when you finished it is how they explained what happened in the beginnings of the game and how it came to be along with some missed stuff. The game's graphical output on consoles is pretty bad too on Performance mode (lol performance) that might give people or reviewers the perception that it looks like a PS3/360 game if they start it there and just base the game's value from there (most reviewers online based it off the console versions ironically). After trying the PC version is when I realized just how much different it was. Game looks complete ass on PS4 visually, "alright" on PS5, and what the game intended to look on PC. I'd imagine the game was built from the PS5 in mind and they just happened to port it on PS4 with consequences in power and fidelity.
I'd honestly rate the game a 9/10 on gameplay+memes, a 6/10 on story buildup, and a 10/10 for the main cast. It is wild that you have to beat the game just to get a grasp of things of whatever the hell was going on in the first place, you'd have to theorize or imagine what you'd think the outcome would be. Any main story enjoyers out there would of dropped the game after like 5 missions so the presentation is what was rough. You'd have to be either a serious Final Fantasy fan to deal with it, memeing to stick with the game, or in it for the fun (which it is fun). The game is also confirmed to have 3 DLC expansions which will explain more about the story. It's basically following the same exact procedure that Nioh did where part of the game's missing lore had to be explained in DLCs.
The downsides I've encountered is that the story only starts to make sense when you are passed the first 40% of it, and when you finished it is how they explained what happened in the beginnings of the game and how it came to be along with some missed stuff. The game's graphical output on consoles is pretty bad too on Performance mode (lol performance) that might give people or reviewers the perception that it looks like a PS3/360 game if they start it there and just base the game's value from there (most reviewers online based it off the console versions ironically). After trying the PC version is when I realized just how much different it was. Game looks complete ass on PS4 visually, "alright" on PS5, and what the game intended to look on PC. I'd imagine the game was built from the PS5 in mind and they just happened to port it on PS4 with consequences in power and fidelity.
I'd honestly rate the game a 9/10 on gameplay+memes, a 6/10 on story buildup, and a 10/10 for the main cast. It is wild that you have to beat the game just to get a grasp of things of whatever the hell was going on in the first place, you'd have to theorize or imagine what you'd think the outcome would be. Any main story enjoyers out there would of dropped the game after like 5 missions so the presentation is what was rough. You'd have to be either a serious Final Fantasy fan to deal with it, memeing to stick with the game, or in it for the fun (which it is fun). The game is also confirmed to have 3 DLC expansions which will explain more about the story. It's basically following the same exact procedure that Nioh did where part of the game's missing lore had to be explained in DLCs.
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