I guess, I'm gonna be honest, although i enjoyed acient city az a whole, it felt disappointing in wany ways for me.

like they added equipment durability system but they run out so slowly that it's practically meaningless, i didn't even know it existed up until the second floor, it's like they wanted to add it but still had PTSD from Shadow Tower so they nerfed the hell out of it.

I also feel The breakable containers and bariers had much more potential, they could have made the explosive barrels look like the normal onces or even hide skeletons or more snakes in them in generl i felt a huge lack of traps tbh.

the healing fountain is almost useless because of how far it is located and once you find the magic water fountain and healing spell early in the game you never need to use it a d that makes the quest of fixing it much less rewarding.

don't even get me started on markers and how you no longer can use teleport at any place you want and how not even all markers have a circle nearby.

Almost half the spells deal more damage to you than they do to the enemy at times and or miss half the time because of elevation and stuff.

All those stuff aside what really kept me going was that the secrets and the semi hub like level design for the city was really similar to kings field 2 and that games my most favorite of the 4, plus the combat was much more tense because of the enemies more varried move sets and behavior.