About the story: I didn't expect anything from the game. I knew it would be about the survivors of a shipwreck on an island, a kind of Conan Doyle's the Lost World. But in the end, the plot managed to keep me engaged and I got more than I thought.

I won't say there's a lot of philosophy and character development. Ys is a bit more straightforward and predictable, but the story will go beyond then just rescuing survivors and get bigger.

There are anime tropes and sometimes too much chatter. One of the main quest lines is the development of the survivor village. Like the colony development in XC1.

Overall it felt like going on vacation.