Like the previous game in the series, the game is visually beautiful and has fun mechanics and fun puzzles. I love Amicia and Hugo.
It's worth playing as the continuation of the previous game, but I do feel like the previous one is better overall.
The story felt a bit cluttered or confusing, in the way that unlike in the previous game we don't really have a consistent antagonist here. It's a good story and a good game, don't get me wrong, but it's weird how everything that happens in the first chapter has no effect whatsoever in the rest of the story and how our "main antagonist" doesn't even get to know us until almost the end.
On a positive note, chapter 9 is the best chapter in the whole series, it basically gives you an open world full of secrets and side stuff to do!! It was a very welcome surprise and change of pace from the otherwise very linear game, even if just temporary.
I'm sad that Mélie isn't in the game and doesn't even get mentioned at all. Amicia and her had a really fun character dynamic.
And for a linear game it could be more optimized, the game freezes for a second or so every time it starts or ends a cutscene.
(Spoilers from now on. Vague version: [spoiler]sad ending[/spoiler])
But I hate the ending... Damn, everything that happens from chapter 12 and onwards just sucks! [spoiler]The game perfectly sets us up for a happy ending until then, but then starting on chapter 12 everything just goes wrong! We had the damn answer! But everything goes wrong, thing after thing, it was all for nothing...[/spoiler]
I also wanted to learn more about the Orders intentions with previous carriers and Hugo, [spoiler]other than after the final threshold trying to lock them up out of fear[/spoiler]. [spoiler]Even before, they don't really seem to be trying to help.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]I'm glad Amicia ends up setting things up for the next carriers, but still. Things could've been different. They got so close to being different. They should've been different. I don't like the ending at all. They deserved a happy ending, specially since we knew what we had to do for that to happen. I don't like the ending we got.[/spoiler]
