I've found so much joy in this game, as a noobie to the Bandai Namco franchise. The customisation is so unique (even though the selection controls may be laggy at times) and it's got more than plenty of options to choose from.

After finishing the game twice, I honestly can't really understand what all the fuss is about. The story is great in my opinion, other reviews made me spooked that it was going to be very cliché but honestly it wasn't. Just because there's a friendship group doesn't mean that it's going to be My Little Pony-esque. ._. It's intrigueing as long as you capture and involve yourself in the story. Sure the endings were a bit strange, but they were interesting for a change.

The gameplay itself is very grindy to get the achievements, as I'm a pesky achievement hunter and I'm still really struggling to get one of the most hardest goals yet which is to reach Companion Level 30. That is one feature that I really despise... It's super grueling to constantly die to the same boss over and over again knowing full well that most likely, you're going to have to spend another solid 100 hours to even get near gathering enough Marks (points) to reach the desired level.... It's even more difficult when there's no one Online to help you grind, since this is kind of a dead game.
(Hmu if you're also struggling and fighting to get that achievement lol ;) That's pretty much the only real problem that I have with this game.

EDIT: About the companion level 30 achievement, it takes MUCH less time to accomplish this if you've got somebody to play with. The fastest way that I've found to get Marks is to play on Depths: Tower of Trials I which accompanied with another player (along with the Revenant's Greed passive gift) grants you 10-12 marks with both defeated Bosses. I've finally reached it after luckily finding somebody to play with, so if you're struggling to find someone to play with, hmu

However there is an annoying bug where Valuables vanish after interacting with certain charaters which is tedious, but I've managed to avoid that nuisance by simply pressing Esc, checking out my inventory with the valuables and then closing the tab to further interact with the rest of the characters.

My final conclusion is that this game isn't going to be very fun for someone who prefers shooter-games with little to no story to it. But for someone like me who really enjoys a story telling in a different manner, I'd say you should give this game a shot!