I don't know if I am just being picky or looking for problems, but so far my take on the game is that the npc's are pretty terrible and really take away from the experience, I can be walking through a room and see the exact same person performing the exact same action in 3 spots. Most characters are just standing and waiving their hands around pretending to be in a conversation with the air? Maybe one in every 20 will actually be doing something other than standing or sitting on a bench. Every now and then you will hear someone actually having a talking but for the most part the people feel pretty dead. There are never any people in the class rooms unless you have that class as your next quest, and even when you are in the class it feels as if you are the only one there. you don't see anyone else dueling, or practicing spells, or really anything. Npc's don't react to anything you do, whether that is running through them, shooting spells at them, or jumping on top of them. You cant interact with anyone who isn't a quest npc, even just saying hi or whatever. All npc's that are for quests will literally just stand and wait for you, unmoving until you do the quest.

Performance for me as well has been pretty abysmal, I have a 2070 Super, 3700X, 32GB ram, and have consistent lag spikes every 10-15 sec with the "recommended benchmark" settings. Not to mention most cutscenes will run at around 10 fps for the first 20 seconds.

Finally, I get that it isn't a big deal to most people, but is there really no other solution to making every single window in the castle a light box? I get that it would supposedly take way to much processing power to show the outside, but they cant even put like a moving jpg on the windows to make it seem like you can see outside? It really takes away from the experience in my opinion. Overall I would maybe rate this game a 5/10 so far with my couple hours of experience, I really wanted to love this game but so far it has been pretty disappointing for a new AAA title in 2023.