I'd have to agree. i would definitely love to watch all of the cutscenes like a movie, but the gameplay is just so meh and slushy that it detracts from the cutscenes, which i think are excellent.
i actually like the characters a lot, but as you said, the gameplay wasn't made for the sake of gameplay but for the sake of novelty
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everytime i read the comments for this game, i feel very alienated. there's so much praise for this game, and perhaps i didn't go through it thoroughly, but the entire game left a very bad taste in my mouth.
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The start is very strong for this game, having a genuinely AMAZING intro, a great hook that engages the players, and myself into the story. The atmosphere is great, the art and mix of the real world images adds to a very worn-down and depressing atmosphere. However, that's pretty much all I can say. Ana, the main character, has a sister who's a medic in the war. I assumed that the intro was from the point of view of the sister, but that's not even true. The whereabouts of Ana's sister, a mystery that has been built up since the start of the game, was never disclosed. The closest thing we EVER got to that, was Yuno talking about how they killed medics during camp raids. Afterwards, Ana has a literal panic attack, and then.. what?? Nothing, it's never resolved, and Ana seems like she doesn't care at all, ESPECIALLY in the epilogue/extras. The entire game is just filled with dropped plot points, like 'Rabbit Zero', or how the military generals mistook Ana for a commander (making us assume her sister is the commander, even though she was established to be a medic?). It feels like the writers wanted to make an apocalyptic and dystopian war novel, and got distracted half-way because they wanted to see cute bunny girls smoke weed (actually happened in the epilogue). They couldn't choose a side, which causes BOTH aspects of the story to struggle. The dystopian parts are very undeveloped, massive plot holes everywhere, and the cute bunny girls hanging out feels incredibly underwhelming, especially considering they introduced Mailard to be apart of the main friend group, even though we've seen her twice, and half of those times were spent seeing her sleep.
I've seen a few reviewers praise the story because it had them theorize. That doesn't make any sense to me. It had them theorize, because there were no answers at all. I can definitely understand how time constraints effect a product and how hard it is to actually put work out there is, but the writers had two ideas that didn't go together well, (dystopian horror and the MC's sister being killed in a war, and lesbian rabbit girls smoking weed and dapping each other up), and tried to make them fit together, and didn't take the time to effectively develop any one of them.
please, i beg. i see the vision. please just cook on the sequel 😭