CRYMACHINA

You wont get dissapointed CRYmachina has cry in the name for a reason Everyone that played this deserves a gold star

CRYMACHINA is a decent game, Honestly for the most part I enjoyed my time with it, the story was great, and the gameplay (early to mid game) was fun. I liked the characterization of each character I felt almost every character was fleshed out and without spoilers there was ample development throughout the games plot. The plot was the highlight for me with multiple twists I didn't expect. Ample foreshadowing was given too. The story did invoke a little emotion in me at times with funny, sad, and happy moments. Nothing too overblown but content nonetheless. The combat initially I found fun. A little jank but at its core I enjoyed it a lot up to mid game. Character designs were unique (which i liked) I liked the art style The overall game environment is alright just passable, it really was just hallways to funnel you into your next boss or enemy group though. It didn't blow me away but it didn't stick out as "bad" either. The Music was genuinely peak. Sakuzyo cooked. However the game falls off a little, CRYMACHINA is a short game if you focus on the main story it will last you 15hours give or take but it seems the devs knew this and tried to pad time by forcing grinding. Later on in the plot you run out of level ups and enemies start 1 shoting you even on "casual mode". They do this during pivotal plot moments it felt "cheap" and unfair, I cheesed not wanting to grind by using explosion Auxiliarys that do percentage damage but still you have to perfect dodge everything or else you just die. I felt I was bashing my head into a wall just trying to get good rng on where the boss would TP to use my cheese since I was so under leveled nothing I had would do damage. Also "Jank" the combat is janky at times dodges sometime have collision and sometimes do not, they sometime dodge "snap" according to a lock-on and sometimes do not. It felt really inconsistent especially when fighting multiple enemies at once, I would perfect dodge then my character would do a automatic counter but I would just die in the counter due to the issues I mentioned earlier. Or I would get stuck on "nothing" and just not move when I dodged. However when the combat works it feels honestly great, hitting a counter into a stun -> down attack was peak gameplay, I just wish it was more polished. I played CRYSTAR earlier this year and went into CRYMACHINA comparing it. I felt like the CRYSTAR story was much stronger but the CRYMACHINA gameplay was better. I will look forward to the next "CRY" game iteration. The "CRYSTAR" style art scattered throughout the game had me hyped for some reason. Pick the game up on sale if you liked CRYSTAR.