I just find it funny the game has a fast forward button in cutscenes. All the zoomies who watch videos on 2x speed have been finally heard.
Out of everything the game's been criticized for as a passive viewer this one to me is the most egregious issue the game has. It reminds me a lot of Steller Blade, where you had a milquetoast story and average characters but you have to beat the game in order to unlock permission to skip cutscenes, so you're ecentially forced to sit through boring trite just to progress the story and nowhere is that more apperant than with CD and the devs secrecy with the story is the cherry o top that makes the hype age badly.
Maybe that's where most of the "It gets good after (x) hours" bros time went into for them to really appreaciate the game.
Oddly enough, both these K-games share similarities between each other in terms of their mechanics and ludonarrative dissonance:
Flashy combat with a restrictive skill set that requires meter building to pull off certain moves (becasue the devs don't know how to balance an action game properly) that your character could otherwise know how to do themselves, but requires grinding out a bog standard skill tree to unlock something as basic as clotheslining to somehow be able to magically learn how to
Izuna Drop a bitch.
Also both were hyped up beyond belief and turned out to be just solid mediocrety that fans/shills defend with their lives, gaslighting anyone who goes againts the grain. This goes into a greater point about Koreaboos and culture war bullshit, but I digress with my sperging.
It's just crazy to me recently looking into this game that was barely talked about on /v/, to suddenly being overly hyped/shilled/shitposted as the 2nd coming of Christ close to release and of course it didn't meet those absurdly high expectations, yet somehow it gets a standing ovation for not being woke trash despite its glarling flaws that's turing people off from the game (clunk, tediousness, Denuvo, etc. etc.).
Just seeing that post with the article about some fag comparring it to
OoT threw me for a loop I audibly scoffed like an anime villain that I knew sounded like bullshit and of course, it turned out to be nowhere near close to that level of praise. "Savor it" my ass.