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Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX 2 (PC)

Something bad is happening to Inti Creates. This is their third game in a row I found myself disappointed at. The thing is, I don't feel like Inti Creates is going downhill or something, they just have a bad period right now. The bosses are still excellent like they always are, the official art is amazing like always, the fan service is charming like always. The level design is ok. But the game suffers heavily from some design flaws.

They had no idea how to balance the game. Normal mode let you use healing for free whenever you want as many times as you want. So you can finish the game without any problem whatsoever. But it makes playing the game too weird. Should I use healing? it feels too cheap. Maybe use it only once? what should I do? at the end of it, I finished the game and felt like I cheated my whole way and it sucked.

Then they locked the true ending behind Hard Mode. And if Normal was too easy, Hard is too brutal. No leveling up, no upgrades, no healing at all, limited lives (can be farmed though) and bosses have new attacks which are stronger and harder to dodge. I only beat 3 stages and then I got filtered and couldn't continue so I watched the ending on Youtube.

Then there is the gameplay change that you can no longer dash multiple times on enemies (which has been a thing Copen could do in GV2 and LAIX1) until you get 1000 kudos. On normal it's not really a problem as emblems give you 500 kudos each but on hard you play most of the stage without Overdrive mode and..why? :|

And then the last nail in the coffin - they have 3 DLC bosses so far. With 2 more coming. Each boss fight cost $8. Yes $8 for a single boss fight. To get all 5 DLC you will have to spend $40, which is 160% the price of the base game
Just because of this bullshit I got the game in a...different way. I will buy it later if they release a complete edition with all 5 DLC for a decent price