>>31099775Even if the ludicrous amount of cutscenes are a plague on the game and send its flow all to hell, it still has the best maingame of any main series entry so far. The characters are for the most part decent at least, though most I'd say are good. I'm not huge on a lot of the music, but none of it is really bad and there's some good ones in there.
On the downside, the postgame is pretty lame with all the removed features really bringing it down. And fuck Festival Plaza. Fuck it with a rusty pole.
But the maingame should mean more to its score overall, so with the lackluster postgame and terribly implemented cutscenes in mind, I give it an 8/10. Some other games did some other things better, but overall it's a really strong entry.