I suppose this is a case of "this game is not for me", but I honestly don't get what's so good about it.
Yes, the gunplay is good, that's great, but it's not enough of a reason why a game is "good".
There is too much bureaucracy in this game. Too many menus, too many different places to access menus, too much things in general. The UI is cramped, for reasons that make no practical sense.
I will never understand the reason why a game would want to add so much friction for what, at the end of the day, is simply a utility to buy/sell/retrieve/dismantle/fuse items. Why the need to talk to different people in different places or click in different menus to do the exact same thing, just with slightly different items?
But hey, if you're into that, good for you.
Another thing is the level design, it sucks. I'm sorry, but I don't get what's so fun about spending 70 minutes doing the "trickster" mission to jump between mirrors in search of a bonfire to lit, to open a random door the size of a phone charger hidden on a wall that you need to jump into the void to reach. Why? To waste my time? For what reason?
The game has a system that points you to things, it signals "go there" and you go there. Unfortunately, the devs decided that this is only useful when there is only one path: forward. When you get a labyrinth of a map you just get the "explore" goal and that's it, your problem.
And it's not like you're fighting through enemies, doing puzzles in front of you or exploring obvious paths, this ain't resident evil nor castlevania, or dark souls... you're looking for an out of sight hole in which you can insert yourself to "press forward", this is bad game design.
I don't want to watch a video tutorial about how to clear a mission and I don't want to play it twice for a time bonus, the times bonus should be about how quickly I kill the enemies, not about how quickly I find a random path in a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ map.
Finally the grind. It's that type of game. Grind, grind, grind. Do farming missions to get better gear to get higher power to do higher missions to get better gear... you get the idea. The end goal? Dunno, being strong? Not sure. The lights gets (or used to get) reset anyway.
I play it to spend time with my friends, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ do I find this ♥♥♥♥ boring. Would not recommend.
Even if you like this type of game, the "unlimited grind, bureaucratic" kind, there are better ones out there than this.
The only good thing? You shoot things, they die, pretty lights go off. That's about all there is that's positive about this game.
