Your most disappointing game ever?

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ARamdomGamer said:

I'll keep it short, cause I don't feel like writing an essay again.

Tales of Symphonia 2 Dawn of the New World, most of my dissapointment comes from the fact that it has the Symphonia name on it. Even having the Tales of name  irks me quite a bit. If it was just a generic anime type RPG I probably wouldn't care much for it, but no, it had to call itself a direct sequel to one of my favorite games of all time and one of my most treasured games since my childhood.

Basically it screws up the world and its concepts, ruins the great ending of the first game (Symphonia was one of those titles that didn't need a sequel), having a pretty bad story on its own, the Symphonia cast is just there, it could have been just a story of Emil and Marta (and even then, these 2 are quite the mediocre characters) and it could have been just fine, but no it has to stick the Symphonia cast in there and butcher Lloyd's character. on a more subjective note, the music is terrible, 1 or 2 original tracks there that I liked, the rest are forgettable or terrible or very generic remixes of tunes from the first game, gameplay while somewhat improved (it did came after Symphonia and Abyss) feels more slow, is not as fluid when it comes to the combat.

I could rant on and on but that is pretty much the basics of my dissapointment with this title.

Yeah, this one irked me too. I think I'd be more receptive if it was a new IP...but as a sequel, it was just awful. The characters were stupidly inconsisent, the story completely lacked focus, and like you said, and the fact that it just screwed with all the world-building from the first game. It had a few strong moments (yeah the ship scene won me over), but every time I think about evil Lloyd I just throw up in my mouth.

Past that...the first Ace Attorney game was a dissapointment to me, particularly the last case. I loved certain parts of the game, but other parts had me beating my head against the wall. I think my biggest problem was that it didn't have enough gameplay to feel like a game, but the few gameplay sections kept me from truly being immersed in the story. Every time something interesting starting happening, I had to go back and investigate old areas to find new conversation scenes to advance the story, rather than watch it unfold naturally.

This is probably on me though, and realizing the visual novel genre just really isn't for me. If I can't get into the next game I might just drop the genre altogether...no shame in admitting that I can't appreciate every type of game out there.