Few games I have encountered so far have had such a big gap between story and gameplay. Lots of games have amazing gameplay with mediocre stories, but I've rarely come across games with this mediocre gameplay, and a story which honestly shook me to my core. Story-wise, I think this may be the best game I've ever experienced. I cannot really go into why without spoiling the game, but trust me when I say that there is something absolutely amazing inside this game. Another huge plus for me was the music. I love the constant use of choirs. I think the choir is an underused component in music, which almost always adds to it, and therefore my favourite songs from the game are "Snow in Summer" and "Cold Steel Coffin", which perfectly reflect the parts of the game that they are used in. I think the characters are another huge plus, because they are so well developed that they frankly put many other RPGs to shame. The gameplay is ok for the most part, with some segments being incredible (the intro for example, something about fighting all of the enemies while listening to "Snow in Summer" felt cathartic to me), but if you want to get all four endings, you have to repeat a lot of events which become boring the third time around. Thankfully, the game skips to a middle point every time you complete an ending, so you don't have to play through it all, but man does it add a lot of dead time. If those problems were fixed, I would easily consider this a masterpiece. I can't really put it at that level, but I would recommend it anyways. The story is just that good.