STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN

I will be doing a review of the game and the dlc in this but splitting it by starting on the base game. I played the whole game with friends and I mention this because the game has what I call glorified cutscenes and those are where you're kicked out of your party and forced into an area solo to optionally talk to your allies or the main quest person to then unlock the next quest, thus you exit that and then can either be invited to reinvite everyone to your session. This is kinda annoying and there are way too many of these. This can also be worse as one section you're asked what the next mission you want to do and if you or your friend chose a different one you won't be able to play multiplayer until after, and really should've just unlocked both. Speaking of because i played with friends any time the game forces you to play with the A.I., which only happens twice midway and at the end, they were horrendously under leveled and thus made doing those missions 10 times worse and made me feel like, despite being on the same level as the mission suggests I actually needed to be much higher, worse as the second time you lose your allies halfway through, but it did make the boss insanely easy because of it took no damage every time I was hit. it was also at the last 5 missions of the game it seemingly suddenly started expecting us to do the side quests as the levels jumped much more then it did prior. The final boss was horrendous as it's just not fun and way too fast and spammy. For the jobs, while there are ones that are just objectively bad for the most part it's the weapons that determine the job's quality and because liberator can use all weapons it's just inherently the best one and it's special is also decent. To put an example I enjoy using fist or dagger weapons, but they really aren't good in a team as you just keep pushing enemies away from your allies and, from what I've read is a common remark about them, the classes like ninja and assassin that use those weapons are only good specifically against bosses and not that good in regular use, though I hear the katana is the best weapon, but I don't like using it personally. For the most part the game is good with friends, but i couldn't recommend it solo, though I would suggest switching to story when it forces you to play solo as your allies will be under leveled and the final boss still sucks even on story. For the DLC I don't think the staff weapons and classes are any bit good, though the gun ones are a little op and fun to use, though a little annoying to get close when you have broken the enemy, needed an enter and exit aim button over holding the attack button. For the Dragon king trials it just sucks as it's just more grinding and if you have already maxed your jobs out all you're going to do is find the level that is the easiest/fastest to get dragon's treasure/rat tails and just keep doing it until you get enough to actually do the two missions/fights it adds and you don't get a tell on the progress if your playing multiplayer and I wish the dlcs didn't require doing them in sequential order thus forcing you to do this tedious one first, I'm still in the middle of it as it really drags on so I'll likely update on either if I beat it and move to the next dlc or if I get so annoyed that I quit though I'll just remove this segment and add that to here but I feel like I've played enough to be able to give a review. I can only recommend this multiplayer though that still is just a barely recommend it, if i could I'd give it a "meh" rating something you'll likely do a one and done kinda game.