Some of you might have seen on the pickups thread that I picked up Daemon x Machina last week. Played a couple of hours so far. It’s…okay I guess. It’s nice that a game like this got made, but at the same time it’s not as unique as I thought it might have been.
The controls are very slick, it almost feels like a third person shooter but with flying. There isn’t all that much character to it since you can get to grips with it immediately if you’ve played other shooting games.
That’s fine, if a bit boring, but the mission design is what lets it down for me so far. In the ever presence trend of quantity over quality it really reveals a lack of discipline in design. There are so many similar missions, many of which aren’t all that eventful, that most of the game starts to blend into itself. The giant boss fights in-between are memorable though.
There’s also a loot element and online play, so I’m sure it’s all rather compelling if you stick with it in the long run. But I’m not sure I will - I’d take a dozen expertly crafted, bespoke, memorable missions over fifty plus dull ones.