talked about it on an earlier thread but with more thoughts: i liked the ending (went visi romance and turned her hero, took waterboy, cut coupe), and while there's definitely some silly copouts like the dog hostage, I can look past it and appreciate a happy ending in a straightforward story. Is it complex? Not really, but it's nice.

the shit that really impressed me was the final dispatch of episode 8, i expected it to be mostly cutscenes but godDAMN there's a lot of kino and actual difficulty

>shift 1 starts and low morale + missing teammates means you probably lose early calls
>torrance gets a fucking HP bar and failing actually matters now, as in "if you let Torrance fall then you can't let the cut Z-team member back in"
>the fucking zoom out and it sets in that you're dispatching for the entire city now
>Coupe/Sonar showing up to straight up give you a proper final boss that felt more hype than Shroud's fight
>whoever you didn't pick ep 4 joins anyways to get a chance to shine
>if you start losing hard Blonde Blazer appears at fucking level 20 and will start hard carrying
>GIVE EM EVERYTHING YOU GOT

genuinely one of the best "final missions" i've had in a while, reminds me of 13 Sentinels' batshit final section where it's just your team against unending waves of bullshit

what a nice surprise

Holy shit, I expected episode 7 to have the hard dispatching but Episode 8 actually felt fucking hard and it came down to the wire

>immediate clusterfuck at the start, like 3-4 failed calls
>Torrance loses 65% of its fucking HP by the end of shift 1
>pep talk for shift 2
>visi comes back and starts fucking carrying
>waterboy lands a 25% chance on a solo call
>slowly the team starts pulling it back
>it's down to the fucking wire and if i fuck this last one up it's all over

>Give
>Her
>Everything
>You've
>Got

>gets a 100% chance due to the visi/golem synergy

the game called that my overall most successful shift in the entire game during the credits and it felt fucking awesome to have it play out that way