So, I'm done with the main story. I think it was good overall. Ending was kino but it was soured for me due to gameplay flaws.
My gripes are that, despite supposedly involving all of obol, it was 90% the Orphie and Magus show, with 5% Seed, 4% Trigger, and 1% S11. And I get it, you wanna go in depth for the new characters, not the old ones, and seeing how Seed already gets an agent story she's not gonna hog the main one, but still, I'm pretty sure Trigger doesn't get more than 10 lines and S11 doesn't even get 5, it's ridiculous. It's not like the story isn't already long, what's the problem in letting them have some more lines?
My other gripe is the gameplay. Specifically the final bosses, which turned moments that should've been kino into excercices in frustration. Why are you putting a 4 paragraph instruction manual for a mechanic that I have to perform at that moment or die? Pause the game, it's story mode, no need to do so in DA but for the love of god I can't read that fast. All the parrying mechanics I did correctly weren't because I read how to do them, it's because I saw a giant wall of text followed by 3 flashes and commons sense dictated that I was meant to parry that. The wave clipped me despite being behind the wall, that actually infuriated me, when I do a mechanic correctly, I don't exactly want to be punished for it. And the final duel was janky as fuck, I don't know if it's Orphie or Isolde but no matter how much I pressed dodge when the red flashes came the perfect dodge didn't come out, I did a regular one and ate shit. It was worse than pre-bugfix Sanby.
Overall if it had the jank ironed out, I would put this up there with 2.1 on the tier list. Unfortunately you can only experience something for the first time once and for me it's been tarnished, so it's going to sit below it.
Also does anyone have audio issues? Whenever I do Seed's enhanced basic or Ult, on the final slam, it's loud as fuck. As in PANFULLY loud, especially for me since I have tinnitus and loud sounds fucking physically hurt me. Other super loud sounds include Isolde in the final duel, her voice is mixed super fucking loud.