![]() If you want to make money, you have to go do 3 side missions for an area to unlock a “Payday” mission that locks again upon completion until you finish another 3 side missions for that area. ![]() However, gold in D3 isn’t easy to come by. The grind for weapons wasn’t nearly as bad in Automata or even Replicant. In my honest opinion, this is such a horrible way of making a game longer. Which brings me to my next gripe, to unlock the last Branch of the story, you need to collect every weapon in the game (seems to be a recurring theme in Yoko Taro’s games). But I just wanted to power through and finish for the story. It’s honestly the least enjoyable combat system I’ve experienced in a long time, maybe ever. ![]() Most, if not, all of those are timed so you can’t really waste time killing every enemy if you want to complete it, but you can’t complete it anyways if you keep getting knocked out of your combos. This was especially frustrating in some of the side missions. Once I got to the later Branches, I was honestly having a miserable time, mostly because those bullshit archers were constantly knocking me out of my attacks. This led to some pretty frustrating battles over the course of the game, to the point where I was dreading boss fights and praying I got to fight them while flying on Mikhail. Clearly the game prefers that you parry over dodging but that just wasn’t a viable option for me, between the frame rate and the controller’s delay. There was one enemy in particular, the centaurs, who would absolutely rock my shit, no matter when I dodged, due to their large sweeping attacks. The thing is, dodging isn’t nearly as useful as parrying. Like I said in the disclaimer, my controller likely had a negative impact on my ability to parry so I spent most of the time dodging. Moving on to the combat, it was okay at first. Even when we did get pieces of story, like how the sisters treated their followers, or the relationship the disciples had with their intoner, it was almost always followed up with a stupid sex joke. ![]() I’ll admit I laughed quite a few times at first, but later found myself getting annoyed that nobody had anything to add to the conversation besides “lol let’s fuck tonight” or ~insert threat/insult~ “UGNHHH” (I HATED Decadus so much by the end of the game). I guess I just wish there was more of it presented to you in game? Dialogue between Zero and the disciples hardly ever adds anything to the story, it’s mostly all sex jokes. So I kept playing, quickly realizing that this games issues go far beyond the technical side of things. But I must’ve exaggerated how bad it was in my mind because it didn’t seem as awful as I remembered. Don’t get me wrong, it was still horrible whenever I used intoner mode or called Mikhail for help. Once I stated playing it this time, the frame rate wasn’t nearly as big of an issue for me. Fast forward to a couple weeks ago, and I had just finished Nier: Replicant and the FFXIV Nier Raid, which reignited my interest in D3 and made me want to give it another shot. I originally bought D3 several months ago and played a few missions, but quickly stopped because of the abysmal frame rate. I was, however, expecting a game that was at least enjoyable. I wasn’t going into it expecting a Nier game, I was open to whatever they were gonna throw at me. This obviously has a pretty big impact when it comes to parrying and the final boss. I have a PS3 but an off-brand controller so there was some delay going on whenever I pressed anything.
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