Mary Skelter Finale Review

Mary Skelter Finale

Developed By: Compile Heart

Published By: IFI

Date of Release: September 30, 2021

Price: $49.99

 

Well, Compile Heart's Mary Skelter series is back again, and this time it's the big finish. Mary Skelter Finale is out for the Nintendo Switch, however it's an unfortunately lacklustre spectacle. It's pretty much using the same assets as the previous games, just with a new plot slapped on top. That's the problem when a game series start re-using previous assets and layouts lifted verbatim, things start to feel like a retread. That's not to say that the production values aren't still high, they just don't hit as hard as they did in Mary Skelter 2. Sorry if it seems like I'm being overly critical of things here, it's just that the devs kinda dropped the ball on this one.

 Speaking of the previous games, the stories of both games have been shoehorned into the new engine, so you can watch them at your leisure. At that rate though I'm not sure why the devs didn't just include the full gameplay, as the assets are all there. What's there is all well and good though, and if you enjoyed the previous games you'll have a good time, but it still feels a bit lazy and rushed, there could have been so much more to it. 

At the end of the day, Mary Skelter Finale is a slightly mediocre if passable dungeon crawler. It really does feel like it could have been a DLC for the previous release, which had a far greater scope. Go for it if you're a fan of the series, otherwise you might want to wait until something a bit meatier comes along, or wait for a sale. Sorry to be a downer but the way this release was put together just rubbed me the wrong way.