The art is beautiful! The battle system is (mostly) good! The music is stunning! But it's all ruined because the story is awful with no resolution because it's a prequel for absolutely no reason, and the characters are awful and generally unlikable. The two main characters are default Good GuyTM archetypes with absolutely no soul, and their best friend that the game desperately wants you to care about is just a generic nice guy. The story stumbles over itself and fails at a base level, and I can't understand why people praise this game as if it's better than the things it's pulling inspiration from. This game could of been a genuine classic if the person writing it understood even the most basic elements of writing an engaging story with likable characters, and that's what hurts the most. It genuinely drags down every other aspect of an overall decent game.