This game is annoying and bloated. At least the second part. The first part, until Cthulhu, is interesting and less annoying. Then you get the pirate arc, which is slow, and the game goes hard with the puzzle-platformer part. Do you know how hard it is to navigate in a 3D world with a 2D character? Or try to hit the 2D enemy first for the free attack when you have no clue how far that character is compared to you? The game was messing with my depth perception so hard. I jumped next to a ledge many times because I thought I was next to it.

Fights are boring. It is JRPG-style turn-based combat, which is slow and repetitive AF. There are not too many options for attacks. So there is not much strategy there. I used the same attacks over and over again. Not even all. Probably only 2 per character. Ok, there is a reflex element to the fights, which can be turned off, so you can choose between annoying and slow or boring and slow. You fight the same enemies over and over again. There are only a few types of enemies. Mostly, they only differ in skin or maybe 1 new attack type sometimes. The snail with a shell was the biggest new thing after 10 hours of gameplay. They even reuse the bosses. You can only boost your damage a little bit (but only the first hit, not the rest), so mid-level enemies are still slow to kill. And you have to kill them again and again because there is so much backtracking. That was somewhat fine, but you sometimes need to solve the puzzles again, which is frustrating.

All this just to make the game longer. Also, there are like 5 types of collectables and a 100-level high optional dungeon where you have to start over if you want to go to sleep or something because the game has only manual save and only at fixed points. WTF??? IT IS 2026 and I can't f-ing quit a game because I lose progress!!! The game crashes a couple of times, once when I tried to do this dungeon. It just stopped working on level 60. So I just give up. I have probably 5 hours left, but I can't. There are games that respect my time; this one is not.

The story and the characters are good, so if you like slow, repetitive stuff, go for it. It has a good price and, sooner or later, will be in a bundle, but I have little time left on this earth to waste my time on this