Nostalgia aside. At some point the story stops being coherent and just becomes a bad attempt at being soulful/artsy thats padded to high hell for time. The sheer amount of pauses, repeated information, cryptic metaphors, unfinished sentences, emotional outbursts that don't fit the situation and just ♥♥♥♥ thats told instead of shown. By the 3rd volume I just wanted to skip every cutscene, instead I did that for the 4th volume because gross low fps cgi cutscenes that killed any possible redemption.

Even the game itself is padded for time, between the guild books, and meeting characters in dungeons at the end of the dungeon. The experience is just so off putting that I want to go back and play the first games just to see if its just as ♥♥♥♥♥♥ or were they on drugs while making GU.

Nostalgia aside. At some point the story stops being coherent and just becomes a bad attempt at being soulful/artsy thats padded to high hell for time. The sheer amount of pauses, repeated information, cryptic metaphors, unfinished sentences, emotional outbursts that don't fit the situation and just shit thats told instead of shown. By the 3rd volume I just wanted to skip every cutscene, instead I did that for the 4th volume because gross low fps cgi cutscenes that killed any possible redemption. Even the game itself is padded for time, between the guild books, and meeting characters in dungeons at the end of the dungeon. The experience is just so off putting that I want to go back and play the first games just to see if its just as shitty or were they on drugs while making GU.