You ever get obsessed with one tiny thing in a game and it just breaks the whole experience? For me, it's the damn camera zoom. There's this new feature where it zooms in when you hit the next rip state during a battle, and I swear I spent more time trying to trigger that on the new Cuebone cosplayer than actually playing the RPG part. The animation is janky, the whole thing feels held together with tape, but that one close-up moment? Fuck, it works.
The game is basically a Pokemon parody where you wander around capturing these cosplay girls instead of monsters. You got your standard Nurse Joy, an Eevee girl with a two-part animation that I still haven't fully seen because she's "uncommon" or whatever. There's a new Umbreon cosplayer now too, ultra rare, which means I'll probably never find her without grinding for three hours. The combat is turn-based nonsense with spells that scale off your max MP, and there's this whole rock-paper-scissors thing with fire, grass, and lightning that I keep forgetting. Lightning does more damage when they're shocked but less if they have some healing debuff I can never remember the name of. It doesn't matter. Nobody's here for the strategy.
There's a Patreon code "friendzonedagain" that puts their clothes back on if you're into that kind of self-sabotage. I typed it in once just to see and immediately regretted it. The shop cutscenes trigger randomly now after you save certain characters, and I got one with the Nurse Joy that just... look, the dialogue is stupid, the art looks like a DeviantArt fever dream from 2010, and I've played through the beach area six times just to see if the new area past it has more of those cutscenes.
It's a mess. The shiny hunting mechanic barely works even after they patched it. The music is some fanmade Pokemon remix that gets stuck in your head like a parasite. I wish the boss fights let you run away still, but they changed that for some reason.