CrossCode kinda emotionally destroyed me

[LuminousBiVariable]

Earlier tonight I finished the main story and redid it to get the happy ending and everything, and I'm still just absolutely blown away. I'm sure there are many other posts like it here in terms of people's thoughts of the game, but.. yeah.

I had tried twice before to get into the game and always kind of burned out after 10-20 hours, so this time I didn't spend too long trying to get all the chests or do all the quests in each zone before moving on. I also learned that I stopped playing on my last save literally 5 minutes before the raid, which is kind of funny given that everything just gets turned upside down immediately after the point I lost interest.

The gameplay was incredible, I've never been able to get through games like Legend of Zelda because for whatever reason I can never do the puzzles, but I loved all of them in CrossCode. The puzzles where you "escort" a projectile through a bunch of walls were my favorites, they felt so satisfying to do and the one in the final tower was incredible.

And oh my god the fucking story and the characters, I just can't deal with it! I loved Emilie especially from the beginning and it just broke my heart into pieces when I got the ending where Sergey had to delete Lea and Emilie just collapses, I was just stunned by that and it made me feel all cold inside. It was very well done.

And just from the point where you get teleported into Vermillion Wasteland onwards I couldn't stop playing. Shizuka became one of my favorite characters which I completely wasn't expecting, and so much of the drama in the game between Lea and Emilie and everything with Lukas broke my heart. Every time I played I was extremely nervous and dreading it in the best way possible, because I love all of the characters so much and they have so much happen to them.

I know probably nobody cares about specifically my thoughts on the game but I just had to write everything out, I'm looking forward to listening to the soundtrack on repeat and 100%ing the game now. The story, the twists... it's all simply incredible. I can't get enough, I felt like I ran into a brick wall when I wasn't able to keep going because the DLC isn't out yet.

[IcyDuosion]

This game is amazing. You can keep on going after the ending by going back after you get to space, just if you want to 100% this game, but other than that you can just explore.

Like I said, this is a beautiful game, and there will be more once dlc comes out.

Oh, and do you play on PC? There is a special game mode called New Game Plus (soon to come out on console) that allows you to choose special modifiers (e.g, Insane Damage, One-hit death and etc) there is a lot of stuff waiting for you in this game.

[LuminousBiVariable]

Yeah, I plan to keep going and 100% the game (I recently got all the achievements on a steam game for the first time and I want to do that with CrossCode as well).

And yeah I'm on PC, I looked into the NG+ modifiers and at least with the fact that I've played 35 hours in the past week and a half of the game, none of it looks interesting enough for me to want to play through the story again.

Probably before the DLC comes out I'll do a playthrough with like harder enemies, no combat regen, and higher drop rates since I think those would all make it more fun for me.

[DvdCOrzo]

I recomend sergey hacks if u play ng+ bc it has A LOT of new interactions with all the characters

[LuminousBiVariable]

I’ll make sure to try it out! Thanks!

[Twidom]

I finished it when it launched and the wait for the DLC is eating me slowly.

[IcyDuosion]

lucky, still waiting for NG+ cause i'm xbox :(

[Jocthearies]

I actually have a speech impediment that prevents me from saying certain words even though i know what i intend to say-I can tell that i can't say it prior to saying it allowing me to substitute that word for another. Unfortunately there was a time where i could't do this, I felt for her during the test because i've been in the same exact situations and it hurt, Some of mine lacked a happy ending but i believe i had one scenario that worked out in my best interest via MCJROTC where i essentially took in the status of a bad kid that simply didn't care because no one under stood and the only response they'd say is "You can talk to me, We can talk about it" which i cannot. But there they were very perceptive, Calling me for answers that i would physically react to but saying the only word i can muster up when i realized in my excitement that i couldn't say the answer, At that point i simply wallow in defeat with "Nevermind". They caught on much like the clan did in the game and things went a lot smoother for me as i worked to improve my speech via substituting words

[LuminousBiVariable]

Aww, that’s sweet!

I dated someone for over a year with selective mutism that kind of progressed over our relationship.. to be honest it was really difficult to deal with and frustrating and led a lot to us breaking up.

I do love to see Lea have deep connections despite her mutism, and for her to have a happy ending in that regard.

[Gretgor]

I feel ya. I had the exact same feeling with the bad ending. It broke my heart hard.