Look up older interviews and promotional material, stuff in Maniax was just quick retelling of things that were supposed to be told more naturally in original Nocturne.
Should i play this first or should i just go straight to Apocalypse?
The Divine Powers were the only good part of the story. The entire DIY messiah plot thread was retarded.
Eh, it's fine. I like the general concepts of reasons. I also like how you can fuck up the "neutral" ending where the giant disco ball just decides to leave.
How do I have fun? I don't know what the fuck is wrong with my brain but I always just default into gun Flynn/buff bot/debuff bot/magic user every goddammed playthrough and I end up bitchmoding the game and getting bored.
There's not a whole lot of variety in the game user. Just do status/Luck MC or something.
They're neat in concept, but in execution they're just so lacking, mainly because you hardly interact with the Reason characters and the endings are really unsatisfying.
Apocalypse actually had a pretty good idea with having each partner character, sans Navarre&Asahi I guess, being related to a different faction. They just need to bring that back in V and do more with it.