i was very very much enjoying this for the first 7 or 8 hours but i slowly started to realize that all of the RPG elements are kind of just there for show. as much as i wanted to defend this, others are right - the combat is so easy that it makes the rest of the game a little boring. i was loving exploring the world until i realized the best rewards for exploration here are little lore dumps and new npcs to talk to - the gameplay centric rewards don't mean much to me when i kill every enemy in 3 stunlocked hits. idk. definitely will come back to this, but playing through it was just making me want to play king's field 4 really bad, so im gonna do that instead now