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I'm a bit more conflicted on this one than I thought. Initially I went in expecting Empire tier dogshit, and to be fair the game opening up with the main villain raping and killing a 6 year old girl, the obvious politics ragebait and the map which is directly ripping off Reborn definitely lean it into that direction. However, I ended up liking quite a bit. The animations, cutscenes, and soul are actually insane here especially for a solodev. I even laughed at quite a lot of the jokes and ended up liking the characters like the mexican rival or the cyborg ninja. The game is obviously cringekino but leans into and embraces it hard.
There's also quite a few features/ideas in this which are genuinely well thought out or creative, the first dungeon in particular in the factory even though it drags out quite a bit was incredibly well presented in part due to the great sight gags and, yes, even writing and dialogue.
But, ignoring the fact it's a very early beta, I don't know if I would recommend it currently. The game as it is suffers from a HUGE slowness problem. The battles are slow, traversing the world is slow, the dialogue is slow. Not even that the performance is necessarily bad, it's just slow. It doesn't help that a lot of the boss fights have a very slow cutscene you must rewatch if you lose. Please, implement insta-text buttons and speedup, this game sorely needs it.
