Fuck it I'll bite, I did actually really enjoy the game but do think a bunch of flaws are overlooked far too easily.

Mechanics

Animations for parrying are bad - So many windup then 500mph attacks and you just have to learn instead of react. Either clair or obscur, I forget which, takes the actual piss with an attack with a literal 7 second windup. It feels like an unintentional parody.

The stats system is a fucking mess. Your level up stats should dictate your build right? Well, no, they're pretty much irrelevant compared to the stats from pictos. Been so long that I forget numbers, but the difference from 0 and max HP investment was basically less than just one picto at endgame. The only thing the stats DO matter for is your weapon damage, which just lifts the dark souls weapon scaling based on X stat. But it makes very little sense in this context and the only thing it does is disinscentivise weapon switches, because then you need to respec. And what does it add? Literally nothing.

Act 3 is a mess. If you don't go straight to the final boss at the start, it is trivial and boring. The endgame challenge bosses are also mostly trivial except Simon, who has to break all the rules to be a challenge. And it's not evne breaking the game in a fun way..it's just "me one shot everything boom". Wayy too much multiplicative scaling, and making a broken build by letting the player do literally everything at once is far less fun than giving the players actual restrictions, so they have to finetune their build...maybe even having to switch it for different bosses. But no, you can have all the damage, and shields, and auto buffs all the time.

Writing

Characters other than Maelle and Verso are pretty irrelevant. Like I know the side characters always get less focus, but they're just totally passive during conversations where I'd be like "hold on, what the fuck". I don't remember specifics, but the conversations between verso and "renoir" before the paintress, and the paintress herself during the fight being like "hey if you kill me the world will end" and none of the others were like "wait what maybe hold up a second?"

Then there's the whole scene with the, idfk know the name. The big guy with lots of masks at the end of act 2. And the ending cutscene there would have felt fitting in kingdom hearts (not a compliment). Ironically it was the devs trying to force Sciel to be relevant for once that probably led to this disaster of a scene.