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The game is still plagued by Jos' shit ""Design Philosophy"", so you have to suffer through his retarded trainerspam and fuckhuge routes, even if they look better.
The encounter tables also get really fucking retarded. You should NEVER have fucking 20 different encounter slots, let alone 3 different tables with significantly different mons. Jos does this shit a fucking ton in this game. And no, Soulstones Shills, the Camping Gear and Demonic Eye doesn't make it okay.
Not letting the player skip text is absolutely retarded. Even if you want the players to experience your """"""""magnificent"""""""" story, having to crank up the speed to 5x and mash X for 1 minute+ if you lose against certain bosses only makes the player tired of your shit.
The mid battle dialogue is even worse than Ashen Frost. At least in Ashen Frost, they were pretty unique and sometimes soulful, if retarded in Lustrous' case. Here, by midgame, you only run into Double screens, Auto TR, and Stealth Rock & Toxic spikes.
The lack of convenience teleports in general also drag shit out a lot. Jos weren't completely braindead in SS1, and at least let Victor teleport the player in and out of the labyrinth when necessary, but here, there's almost zero convenience teleports, which considering how much back and forth the players have to do at times, is retarded.
On that topic, the Fly item being locked to the end of Chapter 12 is probably the most retarded design decision in this game. Not the most impactful, but holy fuck, why would you do this?
Overall, I'll give the game a 2/10, if only for the good points, but the good points don't salvage this game at all. I have zero hope for postgame making anything better.
I really can't comprehend why people like this shit. At least with the first one, I could understand the Republican = bad making the Discord trannies cheer, but this? I just don't get it, and I don't want to.
Fuck this game, and fuck the shills who trick poor bastards into playing it.
