ive been busy so i'm not very far yet. Maybe 4 hours in.
I do have to laugh at how Self destruct only destroys her skirt haha. Not even damaging the rest of the dress, just enough to expose that she's wearing a leotard instead of panties underneath but otherwise the rest of her outfit is totally undamaged.
You can really see how much they took from their designs in MGR though, like the way the Hud works as holograms that rotate with the camera, 2B's overall design, the combos, etc, etc.
I do like how they took a little bit from Dark Souls with the player corpses you find strewn about. Though I'm still surprised how people managed to die in these early areas. I came close to dying against the park boss but that's it, and that's more because it suddenly throws a dozen different mechanics and gameplay styles at once in a single boss fight, it was really disorienting at first.
I bought the dagger off the store guy but it turned out to be useless since I had enough to upgrade the starter sword and a single upgrade puts it leagues above your other lv 1 stuff.
Also cool that you can go back to the demo/prologue area and recover the huge greatsword you had in the beginning! I was just exploring and wandered back haha.