Finally beat this damn game.
Finally beat the last boss after discovering the location of some stuff. Made all the difference. Level 29 now.
I'm glad 3clipse got me back into this one, I wasn't far from the end when I got a little burned out.

After beating it, I feel like I understand the complete Japanese vision now. Also having the DLC costumes makes the game a lot more enjoyable. But once I get high enough level, I think I'll stop using them, as they do kinda "twinkie" the game a bit. And I'm glad I didn't get to a certain point then restart the game. But I get it now, like the leveling up makes more sense. From a gameplay point of view. The game makes almost no sense from a realize perspective, but from a gameplay point of view, it makes more sense now. Like the whole thing is designed so future playthroughs are more fun. And ultimately, after getting yourself fully leveled up, it will just be fun to roam through the mall killing things.

The things I'd do differently:

1. Gear storage in the safehouse. Store up to 100 items in the safe house locker. They'd carry over to multiplayer and game restarts.
2. When you restart a game, carry over non-storyline survivors, so you don't have to re-save the same survivors. Kinda cheap getting PP for re-saving the same people, and it'd be nice to no have to re-save them. 
3. The game makes a little more sense with the DLC, I feel like it should be "earnable" and "purchaseable".
4. Inventory should transfer to game story restarts.
5. 4 player coop.  
6. Allow you to play as NPC skins.
7. Possibly for extra challenge on future playthroughs, game would start with uberzomies, and gear would randomly generated, except for store specific gear. (toy stuff in toy stores, etc)

Finally beat this damn game.
Finally beat the last boss after discovering the location of some stuff. Made all the difference. Level 29 now.
I'm glad 3clipse got me back into this one, I wasn't far from the end when I got a little burned out.

After beating it, I feel like I understand the complete Japanese vision now. Also having the DLC costumes makes the game a lot more enjoyable. But once I get high enough level, I think I'll stop using them, as they do kinda "twinkie" the game a bit. And I'm glad I didn't get to a certain point then restart the game. But I get it now, like the leveling up makes more sense. From a gameplay point of view. The game makes almost no sense from a realize perspective, but from a gameplay point of view, it makes more sense now. Like the whole thing is designed so future playthroughs are more fun. And ultimately, after getting yourself fully leveled up, it will just be fun to roam through the mall killing things.

The things I'd do differently:

1. Gear storage in the safehouse. Store up to 100 items in the safe house locker. They'd carry over to multiplayer and game restarts.
2. When you restart a game, carry over non-storyline survivors, so you don't have to re-save the same survivors. Kinda cheap getting PP for re-saving the same people, and it'd be nice to no have to re-save them. 
3. The game makes a little more sense with the DLC, I feel like it should be "earnable" and "purchaseable".
4. Inventory should transfer to game story restarts.
5. 4 player coop.  
6. Allow you to play as NPC skins.
7. Possibly for extra challenge on future playthroughs, game would start with uberzomies, and gear would randomly generated, except for store specific gear. (toy stuff in toy stores, etc)