40h in and I'm liking it, the problem is, I'm 40 hours into a game that should be 20. This game does such a great job building intrigue and momentum only to utterly kill it with towns and puzzles that generally aren't all that interesting or conducive to the plot. I hate it's pacing.

The combat has the issue that the normal difficulty generally isn't hard enough to make you engage with it since you can ignore most weaknesses and patterns and facetank most enemies, however hard mode is gated behind a first playthrough that is execptionally long.

Fantastic graphics, great music.