Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion

“The gameplay is the worst offender: it's not intuitive, there are invisible walls popping up from nowhere but enemies can go through, and the worst is the whole presentation and clunkiness of the game.”

“Bullet sponge combat, shallow characters with oftentimes baffling motivations, pointless open world where you just fly over every obstacle between you and your quest marker, uninteresting suit design, unrecolorable weapons that clash with your armor's paint scheme, grindy boss fight drop mechanics that want you to kill a boss three times to build a single piece of equipment, randomized equipment stats to trick you into spending even more time grinding for a high roll on the gear you want to use.”

“I dislike many gameplay aspects and balancing decisions, and the boss designs in this game are flat-out infuriating to fight sometimes with game design that feels horribly one-sided in terms of difficulty, with multiple bosses capable of juggling you until your health is gone.”

“You can spend hours farming the same single piece of equipment because the ones being dropped are worse than the ones you have, despite being the same, and you're expected to do it hoping chance to drop one with better statistics exists.”

“Finally, there's the item drop system, which means you'll end up fighting bosses over and over to get an item they drop, only to have to keep grinding because there's a randomized stat spread (e to a) that can completely ruin the parts you get or have to craft by again, grinding the bosses for their materials.”

“The more I play the more it gets both better and worse, the "pick only 1 item" loot system makes boss farming a nightmare, especially since Zeruchroar has 2 full armor sets and a handful of weapons meaning to get everything you're looking at over 20 runs, more if you don't get the drops you want/need.”

“Abysmal dogdoodoo performance, game crashes like crazy. I tried it with the demo before buying and it kept crashing just like before release. I came back to check if they fixed anything, but they didn't. It "runs" just as badly; by runs I mean within 10 minutes I crashed straight to desktop 3 times just for loading the open world.”

“Unfortunately, the game runs like garbage on my PC. The demo seemed pretty good and although it crashed once I didn't have other issues. Performance seems stable but on launching the first mission after the demo load, I couldn't even load textures. I experienced invisible vehicles, then after reload everything was invisible and the game played as if nothing existed.”

“The game's performance is incredibly bad, especially considering this was developed primarily for a handheld gaming console.”

“Then you walk (or more likely fly) 15 seconds up the road and get another 15 second combat… hearing the same combat music restart again, and then again, and then again.”

“The storytelling is easier to follow compared to the first game but some awkward music cuts mess with the mood.”

“For some reason music really just doesn't want to play anywhere outside of base or combat which has made the 'exploration' aspect of the game monotonous.”

“Performance sucks; the graphics are so bad I can't even explain how bad this game looks and runs. It is without a doubt not worth the price.”

“For a 2025 new game, its totally unacceptable to have 1080p graphics.”

“Unfortunately, the combat feels incredibly clunky, the open-world seems mostly fodder, and the second time I went back to the base I was so beset by graphics glitches that I had to close the game.”

“No, Xseed localizers, you are not funny, and you are most certainly not clever.”

“Unfortunately, the combat (the important part of the game) feels incredibly clunky, and the second time I went back to the base I encountered so many graphics glitches that I had to close the game.”

“The game is buggy and crashes frequently; the vehicles aren't fun to ride, although the rest of the gameplay is fantastic.”

“This game is a buggy budget mess at its current price point, with major issues in stability and overall offering.”

“The game is good but has multiple problems: the story is all over the place and rushed with nothing sticking; gameplay is great, endgame content doesn't exist and it's only loot grind; the secret boss takes 8 real hours to get to; character development is horrible. Only one part of the story allows you to spare someone, but you can't do so with others, which affects a side mission without explanation.”

“Almost forgot to mention, the character designs are really ugly.”

“I'm not going to focus too much on the story due to spoilers, but it's leagues better than the first game despite some lack of character development for some people, which is a bit annoying.”

“- Low replayability; after end-game, except for the newly added boss creature, they are all the ones you fought before.”

“Would improve replay value tenfold and give the possibility to make new games feel even better. The original new game is obvious grey loot, trash, and stuff, while New Game Plus (NG+) gives updated loot tied to your mercenary rank to incentivize more replays and strengthen the average player count in the long term. As it stands, players spend hours exploring and doing the main mission wanting to learn more about the game, only to be punished by hard-locking quests without a way to redo them to fix broken chains and the like.”

“The story didn't take too long to beat and the post-story replayability is decent but not enough to hold my attention for the long-term.”