Great game, Arkham Knight bad launch.
If you're looking at this you probably know Ys, and this is just the expected progressing of the modern Ys titles, a good story and an improved battle system that's definitely worth picking up and playing through..
It's sad to see the horrible score for this game as it's a really great title that was released seven months late in an absolutely atrocious state. If it weren't for me being a massive Falcom fan I would've refunded this when it was delayed, or when it released as a broken crashy mess, but I stuck it out for as long as I could hoping that they'd fix it.
I'm happy to say that they have, barring a few bugs they're still actually working on, and as of the GOG-3 release everything from the constant crashing to the flickering in certain areas bad enough to make your eyes bleed and make you worry about it trigger a seizure is no longer an issue.
That being said, after waiting more than half a year only to receive a game that I couldn't play for over a week until it had been patched multiple times, I just can't give the PC release five stars even though the console version gets it without question or hesitation. This was an Arkham Knight bad launch, though we didn't get a price reduction to make up for it, or even beta access for pre-orders. If they had given us (my $60 was laid down in September of 2017 but I couldn't play until May of 2018) a partial refund, dropped the price by a third to match Vita pricing rather than PS4 pricing, then I would be more forgiving of the long wait and completely broken state of the game at launch.
Also, for those of you who care about this kind of thing: There are no achievements via Galaxy like there are for PSN and Steam, and despite the fact that I'm pretty dismissive of those things in general I do hate to see a lack of feature parity (even for ones I never use) on GOG releases.
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