HunterX

Neo Popcorn, now Orange Popcorn (eh, should've stuck with Neo) really enhanced everything about 3000th Duel and made a better game with HunterX. It wasn't as good in some areas, but overall it was a better experience. Parry is now a feature, removing the swap weapon button from 3000th Duel since you can now only wield one weapon. Parry is awesome and felt really good. The slight downside is that you lose out on a weapon slot. This is where I thought it was a weird choice. 3000th Duel gave you 3 weapon type options, here you only get the one. This made choosing a weapon not as interesting since you continuously get better stuff as you progress. It would have been nice to have options to mess around with the fight mechanics. The game is also much shorter. I spent 80+ hours getting everything in the last game, this time around it was less than 30 hours to do everything. The difference here is that the level cap is removed. But the achievement is capped at 199. What sucked is that since you have to play through 3 times to unlock everything, I found that I had to keep my xp trinkets on the whole game in order to reach cap. This took away from me using other trinkets until the final zone which is where I could unleash power. Sure I could go and play a 4th time, but at that point I'd have to make my own challenges, which is meh. The starting zone is completely different from the rest of the game which was odd. Honestly the whole aesthetic is odd. Not bad, just odd. Like in 3000th Duel, the music didn't always match, but it sounded fantastical and I thought it was good again. It's just that short music loop that can start to get annoying. The environment textures are much better this time around, as were the character/monster models. While the chibi style was removed, some things still looked weird. This is a fun game to waste some time on, I'm hoping the next one is just as good if not better.