Recent reviews by Paybackstab

I experienced more bugs and crashes in this game than I did in New Vegas, and there's almost no viable RP options, but the main story is great, and the side stories kept me interested. Also, quick-hacking is a lot of fun once you get into it.

Check the tags. If they're your jam, definitely a must have.

I don't mind paying for a second season pass for more story, new areas, added characters, or unique game modes. However, adding a 4th skill tree behind a paywall is just scummy business, imho.

If you're into these type of games, you'll probably enjoy this. Since it's in EA, there's obviously bugs and missing content, but it's definitely playable. There's no story to speak of, but it has clear goals and directions to follow, and needing to create spreadsheets to figure out how to most efficiently use your resources is always a blast, imho.

Since I came into this completely blind, I'll leave a review for others in the same boat..

Game started off really slow, but once I switched to viewing it as more of an interactive visual novel, I started to feel intrigued with the story. There's detective work a la Phoenix Wright, mini games, and a relationship system that's -mostly- inconsequential.

The whodunnit aspect is fun, but honestly easy. Most of the last chapter was boring, because I had it mostly figured out before it even began. With that said, the anticipation of seeing if I was right was cool.

Overall, if you enjoy visual novels and/or detective style games and enjoy the high school anime setting, I say give it a go. Even at full price, I definitely got my money's worth.

Super cool detective game. Took about 4-hours to clear the base game and was worth the $5 I paid. Even at full price, I'd say it's worth it as it's basically the cost of seeing a movie. As far as I can tell, there's no real replayability which might be a turn off, but there's two free dlc's (only one of which is in English at the moment, but I assume it'll be translated eventually.)

Being late to the game, I already knew what I was getting with this purchase. And I got mostly what I wanted from the mechanics: Run around and grind for hours to get that next piece of gear so you could rinse and repeat the process against a bigger monster. It's great.

But..I held off on getting this game so long because I wanted to make sure I'd have friends to play with. I finally found a group of friends to play with. It was going to be awesome. Purchase..load it up..dive in..

Gotta do a bunch of stuff solo. Fine. I do that. Finally get to the point I can have friends join. Awesome.

Matchmaking error. Again..and again..and again..Go to steam forums and reddit. "Make sure you're in borderless fullscreen," "Don't alt-tab," "Change your steam shortcut path to include these changes," "Turn off steam overlay and big picture," "Don't play with high graphics settings," and after suggestion after suggestion..nothing. Endless matchmaking errors while only trying to play with friends. Haven't tried to play in an open lobby once.

So, this game I bought solely for the multiplayer experience with my friends is built to be a 1/3-solo experience as it is, because you HAVE to play a large chunk of the game solo, and even the rest of the game where I should be able to play with friends is mostly a solo experience because the connection fails every other hunt if not more often.

If the game is updated and the devs say, "We fixed the matchmaking issues!" and it proves to be true, I'll happily recommend this game, because it is fun when it works. But for now, no. I've spent several hours trying to force the matchmaking system to work just to play with people on my friends list, and I'm just sick of even trying to play this game at this point.

Almost 3-hours played. Too complex to be called casual, but not nearly enough depth to feel like a compelling strategy game. If there was a meh option, I'd give it that rating, but even at 50% off, I just don't see myself or friends who play similar games really getting much out of this.

About 8-hours in, I think I'm wrapping up...and my jaw drops, as I realize that the real mystery has just begun.

Don't even think about it. Just pick it up, and go for the ride.

The actual fighting part of it is fun, making me want to recommend. The rest is super meh at best right now though. Hopefully they'll do some patches and QoL updates (other reviewers have gone into plenty of detail on anything I could say on the subject.) So for now, I'll say wait for a sale, unless you have friends to play with.