"There is so much to do in Infinity Nikki"
Then why can't I find any videos that show actual gameplay? I've seen a lot of cutscenes and one "boss" that seemed to have the most basic combat system ever. Is this just a dress up walking simulator?
After playing quite a bit of the game, the closest thing I can compare it to is
Spyro the Dragon. It feels like an open world Spyro the Dragon, very laid back, low difficulty, some light platforming, light puzzles, collectathon gameplay, and a large emphasis on collecting customizable objects like clothes and hair.
It has a certain innocent childlike charm to it's storytelling and music that, for some strange reason, reminds me specifically of Twilight Town from Kingdom Hearts 2:
I think part of it is because they really commit to this lore of clothing and threads being the primary driver behind everything in this world, to a degree that would make sense for the same type of person who liked Kingdom Hearts' lore and simply accepted how heavily they committed to everything in that series(Hearts, Darkness, Nobodies, Disney+SE interaction, etc.) regardless of how much sense it makes.
So far I can understand the high scoring because this game is very polished and very high budget, cutscenes and all.
My only gripe is that whoever programmed the controller settings for this clearly looked at a PS5 controller like it was some benign object they have never interacted with.
Example: I want to interact with a person. It's Triangle to interact. The individual begins talking. Now you have to press X to proceed. Normally from here you would press X to keep interacting right? Wrong. It's now Circle. But now during the conversation they want you to interact with an object. So now the Circle prompt changes back to an X.
Example 2: There was one tutorial box that made me press X to proceed. The next one a few minutes later suddenly made me press right on the d-pad to proceed, then circle to close.
Example 3: You use circle to shoot enemies. As far as I'm aware, they did not introduce a lock-on system. They wanted me to aim using the right stick and then hit circle to hit a moving enemy. Later you're tested on this. You will have to either accept this or change the button at a system level to one of the L/R buttons.
This is AVGN-level madness.
Let us wait for a ps5 pro patch. But to be honest, even the base ps5 is capable of running this game at 60 fps.
Edit: This would be my second gripe, but to be fair it has been a very smooth 30fps experience for me. They will probably patch in 60 at some point with enough feedback...hopefully.
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