Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling into Darkness

So far so good The game offers two modes to play where one is a short tutorial like scenario, where you replay parts of the anime, and the other is you creating a character, playing as a cave raider after those events. It's been interesting to see what might have happened to the rest of the world after Reg and Riko left for the bottom of the Abyss For the full price of 60 € I don't find the quality to reflect that. Apart from the graphics there are annoying companion NPcs tht blabber the same few lines ever three seconds, ropes that you can't easily get off from since the game jut seems to not allow you to do that, quests that punish you for not having enough resources at the right time (Which is life I guess), unintuitive equip cooldowns and other mechanics that you wouldn't xpect to work the way they do and a few other things I got the game during a sale for 9 € though, so I can't complain. I would like to see the game get updates to improve those problems. The only nice thing that' been coming from the low graphics has been that the game loads instantly and there are practically no loading screens, which is nice I'm currently around the perceived midway point (or possibly even still in the first third, idk) of the Character Insert story and there is a lot of content that I am excited to discover. the game has also been getting harder and harder and I am only in the second layer (from five) What I also really like is how the game embraces the narrative from the anime. The artstyle is cute and innocent but then you get death scenes where your character lies in their own puddle of blood or gets their head bitten off by a monster. Thus conveing that the abyss is an unforgiving place not to be toyed with. The quests, characters and storyline reflect that nicely, so hats of to the developers(/management) for staying true to the animes theme What I've also noticed is that this game has a strange pull for me. It's scratches some itch that makes all the bad stuff worth it