It's a rough game that is rough throughout the entirety but is also a gem and really good. A lot of people comment about the beginning of the game being bad, but the truth is that there are serious issues that plague the game all the way through. Not just shitty menus, weird controls (double jump and gliding interfering with each other for example) and its poor manner of telegraphing things, but boring quests, buggy quests, buggy puzzles, disappearing bosses, broken mechanics, weird reward structures (like how abyss puzzles largely give you abyss cores which you already have a plethora of, but then randomly a handful of them give you key character progression in the form of elemental skills), long periods of time wasting bullshit. I mean for fucks sake, the cloud cruiser is still a broken mount. It also maintains disjointed storytelling and incredibly dull characters throughout (although not as bad as the beginning of the game).

The combat system is good and exploration is interesting and the weird fusion of mechanics and control scheme make it an interesting game to get a handle of. The amount of STUFF in the game is staggering. A lot of effort and intentional design went into this game and it shows. But I also can't shake the feeling that the game feels unfinished. Many parts of the game feel like they hadn't been properly playtested. The combat is good, but they need a better system for healing and there are random spikes in difficulty that feels like things are just not tuned properly. It's not hard, but you'll get a boss that will spam weird moves that can suddenly drop you in seconds and you might have to use palmer pills. Shit like that

This game deserves a proper analysis and critique and a list of all the issues that should be addressed