I thought this game couldn't be that bad. I saw the Rerez video and thought surely it couldn't be THAT bad....but I was wrong. It IS that bad. You get promised a game about the human side of war and all you get is middling gameplay and some of the worst anime tropes in a long while - Mikhail is a completely and utterly useless character and that bozo with his baseball analogy had the worst case of anime villain-itis I've seen in a LONG while; I mean, probably everyone at this point has noticed that any piece of media these days come with a dripping lack of sincerity that shows itself in the way of endless quips, Reddit "humour," dumb dialogues and self-referential jokes that never end, right? The worst examples are, of course, in Marvel and Disney movies of recent years, where characters constantly quip about the things that are happening around them in ways that feel completely unnatural for a person living in that world, and that baseball scene is just that.

At least Olga's nice. This game would've been better off if she was the sole protagonist. I could've tolerated the janky, middling gameplay and even the World of Tanks ad nonsense, but Mikhail just singlehandedly kills the game for me. Take that JRPG, shounen ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and stick it where the sun don't shine, Square Enix.