This game was originally supposed to be a web comic and it shows in just how tedious the gameplay experience feels compared to it's narrative. As satisfied as I am with the story, it drags it's feet through the mud to tell it, and the mud in question can only be described as diet Earthbound. Dungeons and cutscenes that go on way too long, NPCs that act quirky for the sake of being quirky, and a battle system that rewards you for purposefully taking damage instead of engaging with it.

It's laughable to me that there's an entire separate route that basically drops the main story in favor of adding more quests and battles. You could argue that this is a narrative choice, but that's such a copout when the quality of the story is so divorced from the gameplay that tries to deliver it.