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This going to be unorganized post beating the game rambling so sorry in advance. (also due to alt tabbing i beat the game at 19hours with most sidequest done but stop doing them post chapter 9)
This out of the few spin off games i play gotta be the worse one for me, not only the gameplay in bland which i did expected from IF but also the story writing is super bland and boring throughout most of the game and feel like they had all the cute but no funny to it.
-Gameplay-
From my experience the gameplay was extremely easy but will get to that later. The combat itself is OK but it do feel annoying how much you are animation lock unless you obtain the "Cancel" for the 3 attack type to make your character combo feel more snappy and not take forever between actions. Interacting with the disc system truly feel like it break the balance of the game, having EX+ made me forever overlevel from everything and having "critical correction" which "increase crit rate" basically be 100% basically give you double damage for the whole game, most encounter can be done spamming box 4 times because of it, blocking and dodging take forever after a combo to even think of as a option but that doesn't even matter as you stun lock most enemy to death anyways even if u don't do insane amount of damage. The only threat was dolls but that cause they would super armor through your attacks but at some point u also just get too tanky to really feel threaten anymore.
Leaving gameplay to be stall with no real skill or thinking needed, just walk to a enemy, press box 4 times and more to the next, do a boss fight, do the same strat but chain and stand still and attack, no blocking no dodging no being worry about the enemy attack, just attack 4head and the fight will be over which made me feel extremely bore of the game very early on.
-Story Part 1-
Part 1 will be what i like neptunia alot for, the skits and the comedy it brings......this done does none of it, there wasn't a time i even find a scene funny as most of the skits is just.........relatable and "a matter of fact". If you remember covid period event for gaming or just social media in general, congrat you can relate to 80% of the skits in the game, most skits just feel like it just stating fact that had happen during covid and does nothing to try to spin a twist to it to make it more engaging, all the skits was "yep i remember gacha being a thing" " oh yeah mobile gaming is taking off alot" "oh yeah nintendo is cracking down on fan made games" and how most of the goddess just goes about it like "oh, ok that happen, good to know i guess". If u like a history lesson then yeah the skit aren't bad but it just feel a bit lazy and dull for someone who live it, and a game to basically release at the tail end of that period to just, recap it to you.
-Story Part 2-
Super short main story talk.......... it just fucking blows, i thought it was funny how everything is basically like covid, with the lockdown and everyone staying at home and the whole mobile game rising up but they decide to do it in the most boring way possible, idk how to explain it but the story does nothing to keep me interested in anything, the dialogue is as dry as bread left out in the sun for a day, there a bare minimum amount of joke and the game take itself a bit too serious. I will say i did enjoy it but that was near the end of the game (last 3-4 chapter) because i was actually really interested about the whole new plot line they introduce but thinking back on it, it make the first half of the game feel relevance and filler.
-Overall-
I try so hard to at least beat the game and get the true ending (the requirement suck btw) before i had to put down the game out of pure boredom, and that the worse part about it, i just felt extremely bored throughout the whole experience which i never done for a neptunia game, maybe sega girl but that was more so it being padded out to do the final boss while i enjoy most of that game, this game was 19 hours for me and it felt like i spend 40hour playing it in.....