Count Zero 最近的评测

The battle system is intriguing, but could have done with a whole lot more depth, like more debuffs that encourage specific combos. The story felt a bit on the short side for me, but it was well told and well paced, if a bit generic. The characters are charming, if shallow, but perhaps that's due to there being so many of them. The world and its inhabitants are beautifully drawn and animated, filled with small quirks and details that give them a lot of character, depicting a picturesque set of cultures that we aren't used to seeing in this media.

There's one big flaw to this last aspect of world building, and it may be petty, but it almost made me want to ragequit the whole thing. There are a lot of NPCs around the world, especially in Maefira and the Iron Kingdom, that are evidently inserts of certain patrons and developers. I understand that this was probably part of the promised features to the patrons, but their looks and designs clash with the world and the environment in a violently immersion-breaking way. It's a very personal gripe, but it seriously took me out of the world every time I would visit any of those areas.