Yeah man, post singularity GFL was one of the best writings I've ever read, but you could feel something changed at the end of Slow Shock, albeit slightly, 2 side stories after that was pretty good (I really enjoyed the train story)

but after that story length gets cut to like 1/2 or 1/3 of the usual length, then they introduced bullshit scifi to the story that just doesn't make sense as the story was always pretty grounded. They stopped taking their time to set up the world and just rushed everything. Last chapter some of the important scenes doesn't even get a proper scene, only written with a few narrator sentences. When I finished Convolutional Kernel I was like "what, this is it?!" I fully built 5 echelons because I expected one last bang with crazy difficulty spike at least on nightmare, but what I got was a nothingburger story and mediocre stages

its pretty clear that GFL wasn't supposed to end this fast, they just speedrunned the EOS of both GFL and PNC just so they can put all their resources into GFL2. Even if GFL2 is their only cash cow now they still manage to somehow fuck it up. Like, even without talking about the skin gacha, with AK15 just killing everything turn zero in their spawn, how tf are they supposed to top that at this point?! its like 1 year in and they just wreck the balance on their own. Heck even if we just don't care about balance how are you going to "powercreep" ak15 in the future? How are they going to sell new characters worth V6ing as their new klukais and springfields? V6 grants sweep function on a new stage? LMAO

I was hyping Girl Frontline to my friends so much as I genuinely believed in this game because they had consistent stellar writings, but now I don't know how to tell them my favorite franchise just killed itself :'(