I knew I was going to enjoy the game because I put over 120 hours into the psp games only doing local wireless co-op, and I dabbled in monster hunter 4 on 3ds. If I can get past tiny screens, horrible controls, and a worse camera in those games, and this game fixes all 3 of those things...no brainer for me.
Combat is the main appeal, and it's not for everyone. I feel like that animation priority is what makes it, if you're trying to play god of war in here, you ain't going to have a good time. It's meant for you to think more about what you're doing, and if you fuck up, you fuck up, try and learn from it and git gud. Changing it would totally 100% ruin the game imo, and piss off the entire fanbase who's supporting the game at the same time. They already made this game a lot easier than all of the past entries. I entered high rank in ~30 hours in this game, and in freedom unite it took me...80...90? So it's the most accessible game in the series already. I'm not even good/bragging, I'm actually kinda bad at the game, but yknow, the series is really damn hard and I don't think people really talk about that. Freedom unite is 100 times harder than dark souls, yet, dark souls is way more known for being a hard game than freedom unite is. To keep on the tangent I like to make this comparison a lot. Super mario brothers 3 doesn't have a reputation for being a hard game, and the original nes contra does. I firmly beleive smb3 is a harder game than contra, I can beat contra, and I have beaten it multiple times. I always die in world 8 in smb3, never beat it even with warps. But yeah tangent aside, it's an easier game, just need to find a weapon you like and put a little bit of time into learning it.
Comparisons to dark souls are kinda legit though, but I think it needs to be flip flopped, dark souls should have been compared to monster hunter. Because Monster Hunter essentially is a game entirely of bosses, and bosses of which are a lot harder and more time consuming than those in Dark souls (only beat the first game, so my comparison only applies to dark souls 1).
Second though is gear, so you already know if you're in for that or not.
I think it's a mediocre/ok game to play solo, and a fantastic time eating game to play with friends.
There's not really anything like it, it's kind of it's own thing and that's really cool. Maybe god eater is similar, but i've never looked into them to really know that for certain. I like it, over 50 hours in so far and still having a blast. I'm not going to try and convince nay sayers, but I mean, that clip I posted up there was A PRETTY COOL MOMENT YOU GOTTA ADMIT.
It's not a fighting game so I assumed someone here would play it, maybe I'm just not into the hip popular games anymore? I swear this game was blowing up all over the place. I can hardly talk videogames to people in person because it's pubg this, league that, dota this, fortenite that, destiny this, minecraft that. If I don't shooter, or moba, I may as well not be a gamer I guess.