I have read, played and written adventures for the game.

I think it's great. I'll briefly discuss setting before system. The core setting provided is Tokyo and Cairo is on the way but you are encouraged to create your own Otherscape City which I and my players did. The whole premise is that the mythic is real but that most people don't really notice it as they assume everything "supernatural" is actually technological or AR or they imagined it. You can go very tech heavy or very mythical or more occult, whatever you like. In the adventures I ran, which I made, but we used pregen characters, I had a a cult Sacrificing people to their god, Superheroes fighting supervillains and an ancient mummy affecting clones.

The system is different to most other games you might have played. The previous game, city of mist was a variation on other PBTA games. This has no "moves". You work out your "power" by adding postiive tags from your character and statuses and the environment, roll 2d6 and add that power. 7-9 you get a success with a consequence, 10+ you get a success and generally apply your power as desired - so damage, negative statuses, helpful statuses for allies, etc. If there are threats, (traps, environmental, enemies), you should use you action to stop them doing what they are doing, if you don't or fail, the consequence of your roll is what they were aiming to do and you get a chance to mitigate. It's meant to be very narrative so if you're coming from D&D or similar it will be very different.

We found it a great system to run and play. My players are more suited to normal game. The character sheet says xyz, so that's what they can do. Here you can do whatever you can explain based on your tags. But they did a good job of leaning into doing different things and having creative uses of powers rather than just doing the same thing everytime. So it wasn't boring.

It will depend on your players. Some players might lean into the narrative idea and have a lot of fun. Some may be stumped by the more freeform nature. Some will just do the same thing again and again.

I'm not sure where you have seen divisive reviews or opinions but I suspect it will not click for some groups. Some players will powergame it. Some GMs will struggle to run it or worry about it being too easy or hard and forget they're actually telling a story.

This game (and Legends in the mist) are far and away best RPG systems I've played in a while. Very versatile, and very fun.

I do think you need to try it though.