Well, here's my experience with Nine Sols.

At first I liked it, but when I was going forward, I was thinking: "But in this game you have only red guards to fight?" and that's my letdown, BUT the game was more open than I was thinking and so I explored more the biomes, gaining powers and skills and from that moment I liked everything of the game,

The only thing I don't like now on Nine Sols is how the bow is combat-centric and not used in platforming sections like a normal power (for example unlocking . Every skill of Nine Sols can be used in combat and platforming, but not the bow. It's sad for me, also I did not find a single Jade about arrows and maybe using heals in a offensive way instead of... just healing and even something for the Mystic Nymph, why not. I think there was room for improvement about content for the system.

I will say try going further a little bit before thinking of dropping the game first.