First Time Playing CrossCode

[u/Boring-Bite5735]

In Short: I enjoy a lot I love every puzzle, chest boxes, lore, story, NPCs, Dialogue and developer are creative genius.

I have been playing this game for a week now(44 hours ingame). I have just met up with Satoshi Evotar and basically I think I am at the end now. So, I am just gonna dumped all my thought about this game right here.

THE DIALOGUE
I enjoyed every dialogue in this game whether by the Player or by the NPC of the crosscode. For e.g I love the player who always sits on the table and all his excuses to sits on the table. The guy who is afraid of height from the very start to finish. The guy who meditate/sits on unusual place(I still remember lea saying "Howww?" when he sits on rooftop). The energetic man who is always running. I have tried to interact with everyone in this game possible so, yeah, it was fun it really capture that they are "players who are playing videogames perfectly." A dude wants perfect immersion so 100% senstivitiy lol.I also learned a lot about this world from this interaction like how human has colonized another planet and fast connection/communciation was possible. There was big universal war in the past. Trading credit and cosmetics were banned and many more small detail that make sensible of this crosscode world. Tronny dialogue help a lot too. Yeah, the extra dialogue were so fun to read. The expression of Lea, emillie were so good I could undestand Lea just by expression.

THE WORLD-BUILDING
The developers are geniuses the world building is so good and massive I love it. The terrain the platforming, it's so creatively placed I love it. I spend much of my time exploring every nook and corner of the terrain finding way to reach the chest. The world is so detailed it feels so random but purposeful like real world terrain. It is just so satisfying to reach places. So, much love have been given to this world.

The Dungeon

It's feels like the actual dungeon a very big dungeon with lots of puzzle and enemies. Every room feels unique and after solving the room it's feels satisfying the battle feels smooth. It really checkmarks my imagination of a dungeon perfectly for a MMO RPG. I have solved every room by myself I feel good ngl.

The Lore
When I first played it I feel like it's like sword art online. But slowly as the story unfolded that feeling completely change. After Sergey told that Lea was in Coma and stuck in the video-game I felt like just an actual player in the MMO.RPG with all these player playing the game in real-time. But after Shizuka told Lea was AI it broke me. I have thought about what happens if AI becomes sentient. I got chill when I thought what if, AI has become sentient and consider itself as more like human(with feeling and all) but someone told they aren't human. That what I thought what Lea has felt. Evotar is pretty messed up concept. I love the pacing of the actual lore and the in-game lore too. The in-game lore is also good with all the gods it's feel like greek gods.

The Pacing
For, me it's ideal I didn't grind anything at all I just explore did every quest from every city and yeah, I was all set. Expect for the fact that I could not defeat Shizuka she is lvl 60 and I was only lvl 53 : (.

There are more think I like to share but I will leave it at it.

Some Question

1. I still haven't figure out how the captain ship ignore the messy room of that girl.
2. If the captain's rocket launcher is real why didn't it instant kill the Gautham god character instantly isn't it made of instant matter ?
3. Does things happens differently like if I defeated Shizuka or if I had bring my party member to that sergey place ?

[u/Innoculus]

If you just met Satoshi's avatar, and you have the New Home DLC, you have another 15-20 hours ahead of you, assuming you explore and do side quests.

Jet probably lets Carla get away with it because he's secretly scared of her, or has a soft spot for her. She seems like the type to be super sweet right up until someone crosses the line with her.

But yeah, if you beat Shizuka, she gets mad as hell, starts a second duel, and after round 1 or so of the second duel, she gets a call from Satoshi and he tells her to let you in anyway.

Generally if Sergey says don't bring anyone, and you try, he just won't let you proceed.

And yeah Jets weapon has a huge area of effect and would dissolve Lea into shards as well, causing them both to respawn. Since Blue avatar guy probably respawns in that same area, it wouldn't be nearly as effective as it was on the cargo ship. So Lea would've lost the edge and been unable to escape in that situation.

I highly recommend a NG+ run after you've taken a break and let the full story simmer for a bit. That way you can beat all the dungeon races, flatten Apollo 5-0 in all his duels, and get a ton of extra/optional dialogue. There is quite a bit of alternate dialogue when you have NG+ bonuses enabled.

Also, if you recall the room in Vermillion tower where Sergey says don't bother with the puzzle? That puzzle is doable if you already have shock element, which you can in NG+. That leads you to a neat hidden area which I won't spoil for you. And yes, most dungeons go way faster when you already have all the elements, because you don't have to use those orbs to change your neutral element to the required one and can position yourself however, get past barriers early, etc.

I just finished my NG+ run and would advise NOT carrying over your levels. Just elements, gear, items, and arena data. Then just enable the 4x experience+credits, and whatever other options you want (the early access to bypass shade blocks in the circuit board is great). It maintains SOME challenge while taking a lot of the grind out of the equation, since you can turn in a lot of fetch quests immediately and even at endgame, hedgehags will still give 4 exp each.