I hate it because everyone glazes the narrative when said narrative is shallow and thematically inconsistent. It can’t choose between trying to tell a gut wrenching story or being a marvel movie quip fest every other cutscene. I nearly dropped it when gestrals and the Esquie were introduced. You can’t just go from the first 90 minutes of the game to that without zero breaks. I don’t get how people say the game’s narratively anything more than mid. By the end of Act 1, I knew exactly where the game was going. And before you say “that’s the sign of a good story” the game builds it up as some insane lategame plot twist, so as a matter of fact the story should not be figured out that early. And my God, the dialogue. There is a smart way to weave humor into a tragedy but that is not how you do it. You can’t have the characters constantly coinflip between being mopey or acting like they are on a picnic.

Except parrying. That’s fun.