At its core, Unbeatable is a truly generational game trapped inside the body of a complete mess. I personally have had a fair time with the game despite my many, MANY near constant frustrations with it.
The writing is thin and nonsensical and tries to make jokes but all of it kind of feels like it was run through google translate back and forth a few times because none of the conversations tend to string together resembling anything near a coherent moment to moment plot. The characters are written earnestly and with personality, but again, the bad writing makes it very hard to connect with any of them.
The gameplay is really hit or miss. Sometimes it's so unclear what the player is supposed to do and the game is constantly throwing new prompts at you without context in sequences with so much visual clutter that it's nearly impossible to get them right on a first attempt. The larger set pieces at the end of chapters tend to hit despite that, and they are the real reason to continue playing the game even if it frustrates you.
The music is absolutely excellent. It just unfortunately sets a tone that the game has a really hard time keeping up with, and it feels like a more polished product would do the music far greater justice in its presentation.
The animation and art style are great too, but the clumsy gameplay and badly optimized larger 3d scenes cause frame drops and some spatial confusion about where your character is when the camera hard shifts from one perspective to another.
I truly get why people love this game, as I actually have a lot of love for it too, but if you come into it expecting a polished, fun, generally enjoyable rhythm game I think it's going to disappoint you. Its really unfortunate that it cannot offer that even with the 2.0 patch having come out.
I will say it seems to have alleviated some of the dialogue prompts crashing into each other and causing characters to speak simultaneously, but it's not fully alleviated as it still happens pretty often.
If you're really willing to push through the confusion and frustration of the stuff I have listed here I think the game could be a good pick up on a sale but I don't think it's worth nearly $30 in the state its in currently. If you're an FLCL fan, some of the larger end of chapter parts of this game are just about the closest you can get to the OG series, and that is a worthwhile reason to check it out, but for all the time it feels that way, there is the other 85% of the time where it doesn't, so your mileage may vary.
