Up front, I apologize for having so much to say about this game. I got this game because I love the musou spin off games. Hyrule Warriors, Fire Emblem Warriors, and I can not wait for Persona 5 S. The story in this game, if you’re not a fan of the anime, is just terrible. The presentation is nice which is what saves it. The static “dating sim” characters at least move their mouth and it is fully voiced in Japanese. But any time the main character speaks or just there are story elements to go over in narrative it opens up to just a wall of unvoiced text. Very boring and makes me feel like I’m playing a 3DS game at best. Now the battles, oh my the battles! If you’ve played the other titles I mentioned they are slowed down by the fact that traveling across the map takes time and breaks up pace. Especially when things flank you and you have to back track and lose ground. This is less in Fire Emblem because you can better order your troops around. But in this game, you are whit knuckled running top speed jumping from area to area instantly in battle almost constantly. Even backtracking is fun as you chase enemies down. The maps are broken up into sections that allow you to zip around the battlefield very quickly. The special moves are handled differently too as you can select the moves you want from a list that you acquire through playing and defeating enemies. And rather than putting together a combo or building up a meter through combat or collecting items, the moves are just tied to a cool down. And when you do build up the special meter everything goes hyperactive and you can essentially spam your special moves back to back until it runs out. It makes things more simple and I found it easier to use the right move in the heat of battle. Your characters in general are very customizable. The game also encourages you to for the most part completely ignore the base level grunts. Go for the leaders and it instantly kills everything in the area. I know for the most part the other games listed do that also. But you previously conquered areas will never be over run by grunts. There will always be a big bad leading them if that happens. No beating up grunts until their leader shows up. The leader is there and very surrounded. It makes for some insane amounts of chaos! Over all when I was done with a battle in this game I felt out of breath with my hands literally sweating like I had been constantly sprinting versus other games I mentioned where they seemed like a test of endurance like a marathon. If you can get past the story you will find a very fun game here with tons of very individualized characters and move types that will keep you busy for hours. But because of the story being so... in enjoyable I would suggest watching for a sale unless you are really jonesing for good big battle fight.