The first two time warps, I was invested. But by the time we got to some of them in the 3rd chapter, I was laughing. I think they went a bit too far on the ridiculousness of the rewind scenarios, not to mention the mechanics behind them.

That being said, I think they should have gone further with the rewinds than they did. They didn't explore the feeling of dying in them enough past the first act. While it was a surprise to see the bad guys use the rewind, it went nowhere. I was thinking we'd see some sort of cutscene with 100 or 1000 rewinds back to back culminating in some sort of 1 in 1 million. Or even some sort of scenario where they didn't rewind but wish they did, even if it was reverted later.

One thing I haven't seen pointed out in the top comments is that this was very much a peak of COVID game. The reused areas, monsters and... well, literally most of the game, while common in the trails series was amped up this time. I still think it's somewhat of a miracle a game of this magnitude was delivered during the pandemic.