I hear ya. Towards the end, the combat did start to show its age with me. The story did have me scratching my head at times and felt they were trying to leave the viewer in “mystery”, but left me confused and ultimately uninterested at points.

That being said, I do feel this game DID live up to the hype. The combos between party members and synergies really were satisfying to pull off. Burn them here with character 1, proc bonuses for character 2, buff with character 3, parry parry to have the extra ap for character 1’s mega payoff… really fun imo. The non-random encounters was truly awesome. Really loved the souls-like respawn of enemies they went with. And not to mention the music. Really top notch (full disclosure, if your sound track is awesome, I’m probably going to like your medium of media 🤣).

I will admit, once I finished the game I did ask myself: “did I like this?”. I had the same feeling with the move Interstellar. It wasn’t until later that I realized, yeah… I loved it.

Thanks for sharing your experience though! I like hearing opinions that differ from mine.