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Update 3 after finishing the game! Wrote a full review down below and edited my first impression part a bit, my review contains some very minor spoilers but if you are in between to buy this game or not, really recommend to read it first. My short answer is still same.

Would i recommend this game to a friend?

Short answer: Not really for this price range

Long answer: I played the game for a hour right now and finished prologue/played the main game a bit and i must say for this price range, 30 euro/dollar is quite much! (150 TL for me since the regional price) I dont think that this game deserves this price range. While i really liked first game i would still argue it should be around somewhere 15-20 euro and same goes for this game too. I would also like to make a much more detailed review of all things but considering of doing it when i finish the game itself to give it more justice and time.

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(First impression, full review down below)

Here is why:

1) They copy/pasted nearly all the assets from the first game and gave the same price as first game. By copying i mean in a wide range of it. (villagers/some monsters/combat effects/items/shops are nearly all the same!) (Edit: I would say 50/50 but still too much)
2) I really hoped they twisted the open world and combat a bit (since it got really stale in the first game after a while) but as it is i didnt see any change at all which is kinda disappointing in my opinion because game really needed some changes for that, i hope there will be some on later stages of the game (Map and level design is actually better)
3) DLC packages i bought and tried in the game -most of the nier automata ones- doesnt fit at all to the setting of the game. While this is more of a minor complaint and an optional one, in first game -nier replicant DLCs- didnt had this problem so really dont know why they decided go this way, however this is more of a personal taste like i also think music is a bit more of a letdown from the first game.

- Overall as a first impression i am really in disappointment for this one but i hope that it will change positively the more i play the game in future since i am a big fan of all of the yoko taro's work

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Full Review + Comparison to first game

Firstly, positives and negatives:

Positives:

+ Better map and level design, not completely linear with more interesting places
+ More wide range of characters and more interesting ones too
+ Story has better premise and more interesting right from start
+ Voice actor is better than first one (This one at least give emotions and feels more alive)

Negatives:

- Game is even more easier, final boss is a joke!
- Copy/paste characters/npcs/enemies from first game
- Same ♥♥♥♥♥♥ UI
- Story gets kinda dull in the middle part (gets better at the end again)
- Combat is still same ("Partner Attacks" are def. not enough change)
- Main trio is a bit weaker character wise
- Even less equipment options somehow
- Same technical problems from first game they didnt fix any of it

This out of the way, let me tell you this: If you had any problems technical or gameplay wise from the first game do not worry because they are exactly the same here!

Some major flags i will explain below shows that devs really doesnt care for fans and do not listen any of us because they really didnt fix any of things they should have already or at least some of them. This is outright a copy/paste game of the first game with new story and world for same price of company greed for money.

While combat was okey in the start like first game it gets really boring and dull after a while because game is already too easy! Unless if its some boss fights you never need to think what you should do and just fight with 1 or 2 better cards you have and fight is over. This is exactly why everyone complained about the first game and they made the same thing even easier this time.

Or you can use a escape option which also gets boring because of doing same thing over 100x times.

Final boss is a total joke compared to first one. At least in the first one final boss was the only thing that was kinda challange but for this one you have 4 separate fight in which you can rest and full up your heal and fights are really not hard.

Also in equipment sides of thing you really need to buy much less compared to the first game so you always have ♥♥♥♥ ton of money

If you also had any technical problems from the first game you didnt like they are still here and didnt fix any of that stuff, like:

- Not having shortcut for equipment, skills, inventory
- Not being able to quit to the settings or main game (need to close the game)
- Even if escape chance needed is 2 points (from 2 dices) you will get it because minimum you can get is 2

And personally for me the most problematic part of copy-paste characters. The Ivory Order (Very important organization from first game) guards are used as the normal guards of some island which also takes big part in the story. (Edit: was wrong it is the Ivory Island as someone commented)

And biggest joke is that in this copy-paste problem, one of the most important human villain from the first game is used as an important ally in this game who is also the father of one of the characters from the first game! I thought they were the same characters at start but their names and motives are completely different with age difference. Like why? Can you really not create new characters for that for 30 euro game? Are you really that lazy?

All of this major red flags i listed here easily shows that this game is a disguise of a first game which has a new story/characters with a new map for giving the same price of 30 euro! Devs didnt listen any of the problems of the fans from the first game! This explains why 2nd game came out so soon after first one.

As you can see from all this problems of this disgusting company practice should not be supported by not buying this game or writing to the game devs about the problems we have here, however i doubt they will listen because they didnt after the first game.

I actually enjoyed the game BUT i wish i didnt with all these problems. This game does not deserve 30 euro price tag. And i am pretty sure they are thinking of doing this same thing over and over again as a franchise of "Voice of Cards" to get some easy money.

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Thanks for reading my review if you actually came this far! Since my review is fully completed i opened comments to argue with anyone here or help them about any questions in the game.

Have a nice day.

I am fully expecting dragon plot twist to be a dimensional multi-verse monster that connects nier-drakengard universe with this since you know its yoko taro.

Also musics are amazing as usual by keichi okabe guy never disappoints

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Good