Lance Melton

This was delightful. My 11 y.o. loved it.

There are massive issues with pop-in (vegetation and NPCs) even on PS5. It strongly detracts from the experience. When there's a somber moment and NPCs are warping into the scene as I'm walking through a town, it really takes me out of it.

I wouldn't call this "good," but I'd call it "good enough." I watched it. I'd watch a sequel. I'll stay subscribed to Netflix if they continue releasing content like this and building out worlds.

Good characters. Interesting story. Nice style. The mechanics, however, are at a minimum poorly explained and often absolutely terrible even once completely understood. I feel that many of the people who like Persona 5 were held hostage by the really good parts and have errantly convinced themselves that the awful parts are somehow not destroying an otherwise lovely game. Key example: Want to save your progress? Okay, go to your room. Except, wait, sometimes that advances the day without offering a save opportunity. What the heck?

This an AVOID until they add in a new save system. It's a gorgeous game. Quite fun gameplay. Awesome atmosphere. But multiple game crashes and no proper save system means you can lose hours of progress at no fault of your own. Anyone who says "this is just now roguelikes work" don't play very many roguelikes. What an incredibly unfortunate decision.

Good show dragged down by a bland, safe ending. It's fairly skippable, since any lead-ins to future content can be explained in a few sentences.

Fun and addictive, but freezes a lot when trying to close out the game. No other game is doing this to me. On the most recent freeze, it wiped all my progress and I'm back at the tutorial.

I understand what Nintendo was going for by enforcing that players on the same Switch share an island, but some of the trickle-down impacts are absurd. For example, if the "main" first player hasn't progressed on all the tutorials, any subsequent players are locked out of progressing. This makes for an incredibly frustrating first-week experience for siblings, and it's not the only case of this insanity. Plain and simple, Nintendo expects you to buy a second (more more) Switch and more copies of the game in order for siblings to have the same experience.