It's fine as a light, atmospheric adventure and I like how the castle loops around and has a sense of place, but the gameplay holds the game back. The escort heavy nature isn't pushed much and usually Yorda just slows the pace down to a needless degree without adding anything interesting. The slow pace isn't helped by lack of automatic checkpoints, meaning that one mistake could easily lead to losing a fair bit of progress which is not fun to repeat and doesn't fit the general feel of the game. There were also one particularly clumsy section with a couple of very awkward jumps that somewhat soured my mood for the following sections.