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[Barozi]

Barozi said:

I'm beginning to understand why Soul Hackers 2 didn't score that well on Metacritic.
Dungeons are almost as poor as the ones in Persona 4. Story is way worse. All party members are introduced within the first three hours of the game.

Another thing that annoys me: Why is the auto text so poorly designed compared to the Persona series? Text scrolls way too slow and can't catch up to the voice overs. The result of that are unnecessary waiting times between the lines until the text has finally caught up. What's worse, even when the lines aren't voiced, auto text is still in effect. But since the text is scrolling so slow, I press the button to display the whole text box. However, the new text box will pop up only a second after pressing the button so if there are more than two sentences in one text box, I can't read them before the next text box pops up. Persona didn't have this problem. You really expect me to constantly switch between enabling and disabling auto text or wait for an eternity for the text to scroll through?

Meh.

Finished Soul Hackers 2.

Pretty short game for an RPG. Managed to finish it in a little over 20 hours and that includes half the side quests (basically just fetch quests) and the good ending which requires beating a couple of extra floors in existing dungeons. Without that extra work, it'll probably take only 15 hours to beat the game.

Not much has changed from my initial impression. Story is crap, characters aren't that interesting, dialogues are too long and boring, dungeons are poorly designed, side quests are awful. On the plus side, there are of course tons of demons to choose from, the combat system is as good as you'd expect and the visuals are decent.

Definitely not worth a buy for anything over $10 IMO so in a way it's the perfect Game Pass game. Install, play, probably delete after a few hours, no money lost.

7/10