The actual game is really fun and addicting, but I can't not talk about my issues with this game.
First, the port is complete garbage, I had to download a mod that adds button prompts because all the buttons shown on screen would be the keyboard buttons, Dynasty Warriors 8 had the same issue so I was fine with this. Then I downloaded a mod that would allow me to play in 1440p, but found that a lot of the time the game would crash or freeze, so I had to uninstall that mod and downgrade my monitor to 1080p. THEN I still had crashes, where the game would go into a cutscene and completely go black, completely swallowing up the screen and not letting me do anything, I had to oipen task manager, which was on monitor 1 and couldn't be seen, use a command to move it to monitor 2, and then end task that way. This crash happened at the end of the same level every time, one of the longest levels in the game, so I was always completely pissed off. I tried four times to beat it and got the crash every time, which led me to ANOTHER mod that would fix this issue (The mod's name is DXVK) which finally fixed most of my crashing.
If I were playing and clicked off the game to my second monitor to do something and came back, the gameplay would be in slow motion, and need to be completely restarted to fix.
Now for gameplay stuff: I love the gameplay, it's very fun and using different combos and learning strengths of each character is really fun, but end game things start to fall off. Each character can level up using Coins, there are regular ones you get for beating enemies and helping team mates (which can be used up meaning you'd have to grind a character to get more if you need it), and there are gold coins, gotten through means of 100%ing levels which I am fine with, but then there are are specific gold coins that every character has. I'll go into why this is horrible in a second.
When you beat the story, there's another mode you can play called Dream Log. In Dream Log you can play through like 50 levels with any character you want, and unlock new characters and stuff, but you'll find near the bottom that there are levels that are recommended for level 100 characters. Every character has a level limit of 50, and if you want to break this limit you must get the gold coins for each character, some have 3, but most have about 5 or 6.
To get these specific gold coins for breaking level limits, you need to defeat a boss in the Dream Log. There are 15 bosses, and even then after beating them you're not guaranteed to get a gold coin. Once you beat a boss they disappear as well, so if you beat all of them and still haven't gotten your gold coin for your character, you have to play the final level of Dream Log again to respawn the bosses.
To put this into practice, I've been playing one character through dream log and it's extra levels made for 100 level characters, but I'm getting bored of playing this one guy for so long, but I can't do anything else unless I want to grind killing bosses (Killing a boss means fighting a ~15 minute battle until the boss spawns so you can kill them) and hoping I get the gold coin I want, as it spawns ones for characters I'm not interested in playing, or just doesn't spawn any at all.
Now, all that aside, I still like the game and even try to force myself to enjoy this grind, but I am so much at my wit's end with the fact that I'm steamrolling these early bosses to try to get my gold coins, and the levels play so slowly because of it. When a character appears, there is a notification letting you know they appeared, then they talk, and you might talk, then if you kill them, they will talk, you will talk, someone else might talk, and then a notification appears for a new objective. If you are playing a level 100 character, you will see a strong enemy appear in the battle, run over and kill them before they even get to talk, and then have to wait in limbo for them to talk, you to talk, them to talk about being defeated, you to talk, and probably another character to talk as well.
This is every level and there's no way to skip the dialogue, so the levels can feel extremely long, and you have to play them over and over and over and over to get the specific gold coin to allow you to break the level limit so you can play through the other 50 levels that are made for 100 level characters.
That being said, if this game were to have a better coin system, and was actually stable on pc from the get go, it would be one of my favourites.
