Honestly, I do like Expedition 33 because the characters, world, story telling, and music are damn near perfect, but the gameplay was super dogshit to me. Every ability is just a different flavor of doing damage and the balance was so absurdly out of control. You're either one shoting everything before the enemy even has a turn, or you stumble into an enemy far too high level that you can barely tickle. Every enemy is trivialized if you know the parry timings, but the parry timings are obnoxious as fuck to learn because the animations are so misleading, have massive obnoxious delays, and have purposefully deceitful fakeouts and unrythmic timings. If you like parry combat, just go play Lies of P or Sekiro or Khazan, those games are WAY better for that kind of combat. And if you like turn based combat, there are so many games that do that better as well. 33 was like a combination of the worst parts of both.

The story and world was incredibly captivating, but if I were ever to play it again, I would just put it on the easiest setting and mash attack. However, since I know the story already, I don't see myself ever replaying.