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Ok this game is contentious for a reason. Lotta problems with it, Let it be from bugs abound. Usually small visual bugs like axium suddenly frozen in place and not peforming any animation, merely jumping to place like 173 as he runs around and happy slaps stuff, or characters just sort of doing hyper calisthenics on their spine like their wind up toys. or larger foundational problems that make the game way too easy and thus uninteresting like how characters cant die or else you'll lose the game. When you cant even recruit the entire 13 party class roster to try them out in one run. To the writing and setting being tonal whiplash encarnate thanks to how poorly Xcom 2 really dug into the 20 years alien rule and how human culture would be sculpted around it to better contextualize just how xenophobic Xcom is. (the mounted heads thing is pretty bad here but we dont really have a nuanced perspective on what the average person is really living in) Without all that proper setup to really contextualize how we'd have City 31 be the zootopia of bell. Or just how characters are written like twits and not Swat 4 which would better fit as an evolution on Xcom 2's tone. But in all earnestness i cant hate this game. much less i feel like this game's strengths are better suited for something like a nintendo switch or something. a fast handheld experience where you play through an encounter. do something else and come back. One thing this game really lets itself be is a bite sized Xcom generator. kind of how i would treat non ironman runs of Xcom EW or WOCH. pop in, play. pop out. Along with the experimental character focus being somewhat appropriate given the restricted cast list, but still falls apart when you have no threat to actually lose any and cant build them up like fire emblem, which sort of gimps alot of the characters and makes them alot more cringe given these are practically cardboard cutout immortals i cant get rid of. (which isnt unprecedented given how the sidestory stuff in Xcom 2 felt like a prelude in hindsight with Julian and Chen, wasnt enough of an evolution)

TLDR i feel like as far as a game goes. this is dissapointing, but as a narrative experiment, its not bad. their's stuff to develop here. but given the departure of the Xcom 2 team. thats what doesnt look bright for the future. not this one stumbling for trying to be different.