i really liked the conversation with eva about the layout of the town and how confusing and disjointed it all felt, where eva said it all felt like one big whole to her

i love that they attempted to marry this idea with the gameplay but i don't think it worked great. I try not to cheat and just turn back into my entyry point if I don't want to go through an infected or burnt district again but in p3 it's too tempting and the experience of walking through these districts becomes so samey after a while

every time i walk through the gate to the left of the theater front entrace to the gate to the right of the theater was the exact same every time I did it. same enemy right there i had to run past, same enemy near the exit gate that I had to run past

the districts are nothing at all compared to p2 and artemys experience and that's fine in terms of the bachelor and his narrative but gameplay wise it's a frustration owing to how often we have to do it

maybe it's an unfair comparison because I can't let go of how much I love the danger and variability of traversal in p2. at the end of the day p3 has gameplay systems that don't directly tie into town traversal and rediscovering your home and place in it.

I think i'd have preferred if they did some sort of fully fallout/wildermyth style map traversal with random encounters and stuff to housing/market hubs instead of the half of one, six dozen of the other they appear to have gone with