I’ve been revisiting anno 2205, infamously the ugly duckling of the Anno series of RTS games. I don’t mind so much the fact that it’s different, lacks customisation and random map generation - I’m bothered because the game is so slow to progress through on challenge settings, and it feels like a game designed just to artificially waste your time; in other anno games, you can always pull tricks to dig yourself out of economic crisis - selling off assets and surplus goods, completing quests for other parties, or taking loans. 2205 is very very confined in terms of what you can do to financially recover in the early game and forces you into a lot of military events.
OMORI - oh, how I’ve despised every time story sidetracked and I had to go do random unrelated things (mostly fight) in the mindspace. I’ve heard that the other ending explains why things are this way, but I’m not going to play this overstretched shit again. IMO it’s a 10-hour game artificially stretched to 20 (or 40). Also, since they’ve already created pretty much all facial expressions for combat, they could put them into the dialogues.
Both Nier games - I’ve heard that the devs’ previous games didn’t have good combat either, which begs the question of why they decided to turn yet another game into a slog, twice. As for the story, I could predict the events way before things have happened. Maybe I’ve seen too many games that came after and got inspired, since I only played them last year.
Chaos;Head Noah - for the 4chan incel protagonist and all the unnecessary graphic gore. The fact that world ends in pretty much every ending didn’t help, either.
Haven’t played Chaos Head, but I have hated how much Japanese writing feels like children that never grew up trying to present “maturity” through pure shock value (gore, sadism).
Can’t forget the mystical phlebotinum that is Despair in the Danganronpa games (the odd hypnotic zombie force, not the emotion)
Automata combat is mostly a poor slog but I did get all the endings so I totally feel this