>>725653445 (OP)
This literally doomed the franchise for eternity. I dont even give a fuck about my own personal response to this game which is a mixed-bad-bag since im a 200IQ action aficianado who has actually completed the actual NG games on master unlike 99.99% of the people on this planet or even this board, but they couldn't possibly have released a bigger pile of shit if their goal was to revitalize this IP
They basically had the golden goose of all opportunities of all time that was ready to shit out a soft reboot of the franchise on a silver platter, and they raped it to death instead. Imagine going back to "Black" with a new opportunity do it "better" with modern tech and everything team ninja learned from fromsoft etc across all the years of chasing their shadow with Nioh. A new rookie ninja (compared to ryu) built from the ground up wouldve let new people learn the franchise alongside the character (pic related instead of some fucking abysmal gay cyberzoomer aliexpress tengu mask shit who sounds and acts like Mysterion from south park) and you would've potentially had a whole new trilogy on your hands. Or fuck, you could've even gone back to remake the NES games if they wanted to keep capitalizing on Ryu without ever-escalating his powerlevel and accolades, but no, we need to instead shit out the lazy remains of some abandoned MGRR2 prototype in some retarded UE5 test map that looks like an AI generated version of Ghostrunner, with combat that has no clue whether it wants to be NG or DMC with the worst story in the entire franchise, intercut with epic Ratshit and Wank railgliding and flying segments every 5 minutes.
This game is made for literally nobody except retarded zoomies who want to pretend like they're NG fans after "beating" 2B once or some shit. It actively shits on everyone who actually cares and isn't meant to rope in anyone truly new either, just pure amateurish trash made by retards for retards