Finished up Code Vein a while ago. Got the best ending and I loved the game in general, although its flaws are apparent.
-- Code Vein is essentially a hybrid between the gameplay of Dark Souls and the characters/storytelling of God Eater. Heck. it even has its own version of the Estus Flask, Bonfires, and Souls.
-- I loved the companions and their various banter on things, which reminded me of Dragon's Dogma. Granted, you can only have one NPC ally at a time, and for most of the game I used Yakumo who is a juggernaut with a 2h sword. Near the end I swapped over to Io, who is essentially Code Vein's "Firekeeper."
-- My main complaint is some of the move sets of the bosses lean towards unfair territory. For example, some bosses may have an AoE move that activates almost instantly, as well as having "guard break" moves that also act just as fast. Now, one could say just "get good," but either the bosses perform too quickly or the character animations are too slow for certain things. I remember reading a common complaint is that healing ("Estus") takes forever when compared to the fast paced combat. // Granted, I was playing a heavy 2-hander and relied on blocking, so maybe some bosses just countered my playstyle.
-- Also, one of the main levels, the Cathedral, is a giant maze map that overstays its welcome. I rather go through Dark Souls' Blighttown instead of the Cathedral, as at least Blighttown is shorter and can be sped through whereas the Cathedral is a slog.
-- Lastly, leveling up can be confusing there are two main progression, "Character Level" and "Blood Code (Class) Level." Raising your character level too high will make it difficult to level up your various Blood Codes to unlock skills from that class to use in any other class. Granted, this is only a problem if you are trying to go the completionist route and unlock everything - if you just plan on using the classes most suited to your playstyle, then outleveling may not be much of an issue.
In other news, I've also gotten back to playing Earth Defense Force 5 and just slowly grinding out my completion percentage by playing missions with the different classes. If you want to blow up giant insects and giant aliens, report to your local EDF recruiter today!
Lastly, I am still playing around with Another Eden, a free, mobile, gacha game that is a JRPG. I love the fact you can play at your own pace, the story is amazing, and I love the characters. Also, it has collabs with Persona 5 and the Tales series which gives the collab characters for free after progressing far enough in the collab storylines. (The collab characters are also pretty good despite being free!)
-- The only thing I dislike is that there's no "Auto" function for the more grindy parts of the game, which is mainly running dungeons repeatedly to farm for certain items or to raise the Light/Dark levels of a story character.
