But it's not a visual novel. It's closer in style to a western point and click.
It didn't feel right comparing it to Al Lowe's games since it didn't have any emphasis on having red herrings that fuck you over. Maybe Torrin's passage but it's not that short.
Some routes in the game have a light puzzle aspect, but in general it's more about reading walls of text. Regardless, you can have a VN with a point and click gameplay (like Yu-No).
You have the train station which is all entirely timed in order to get to the end, feeding the cat which is also timed, getting to eat all 4 meals, collecting change around the school for vending machines, managing pills so you don't get a game over, there's quite a bit more stuff and then you have the SRPG part which the adventure part is tied behind and you need to S rank fights in order to have enough chips to fully upgrade all the Sentinels. Sakura Wars didn't even bother going into that back when that series was tied to the SRPG aspects, and 13 sentinels still is more elaborate than Utawererumono in that regard.
You mean steal cars, the assassination missions were for Lester and they payed
Point is, at no point does Franklin consider putting even an ounce of pressure on Devin when he was in his house and let himself get walked over as usual. It's common accepted that people thought the GTAV antagonists were either barely part of the story or just rich douchebags waving their dicks in front of the protags without any self awareness it could get chopped off.
This is one of the parts where I think the game failed miserably.
Yes. Never seen without one.
None of it is hard though. It's about the same level as Telltale later games where the solution is extremely simple and requires minimal thinking. I kinda wish there were puzzles that required certain actions from other characters to complete.
Well the main aspect was the SRPG gameplay, the entire reason why there's 13 party members to begin with is because 6 are allowed on the field at the time and only after a few fights they have to be benched and you have to switch other members in. 12 or 13 is the amount so you can have two team makeups with some variation. If you upgrade the terminal to max you wind up with allowing support units able to be deployed on the field which can sub in for people since the later missions flood the screen with enemies. Telltale games towards the end didn't even have fail states for their puzzles, they were really just movies you watched since their whole cornerstone of choices turned out to be an illusion.
Shitposting and trash talking are the best part of multiplayer games. It's utterly absurd how hard the industry has tried to "sanitize" its online experiences in recent years to avoid "toxicity." Anybody complaining about "toxic" players should be banned from whatever game they're complaining about and exiled from their forums and tech support systems.
That's entirely why I'm not touching it on top of the gatcha bullshit.
