TheFUNisher423

The game is a lot of fun but has issues. I really enjoy the parkour & the combat system. The mechanic for switching between spells was really well done & makes you feel really powerful. No other game has made me really feel like I was in control of the magic I was using like this game. Switching between the types of magic & utilizing different spells in different situations was so well done & made me wish other games (thinking of Hogwarts Legacy, specifically) used a similar mechanic to make the flow of battle smoother. I also enjoyed the story & the characters. The story gets a lot of hate online, along with the characters & voice acting, but I really do think that's just a bunch of incels/racists/misogynists who weren't happy to play as a black female. The story is a bit predictable, sure, it's the classic "chosen one" story, but so are like half the games out there & they don't get as much hate as this game for being predictable. The depth of the world building is great, & I really enjoyed a lot of the dialog, especially between the main character, Frey, & her "sidekick." They have an entertaining back-and-fourth throughout the game that is genuinely funny at times & engaging when they discuss deeper matters like Frey's past & the mysteries around the land of Athia. On the negative side, the world is just too big. You can complete the whole storyline without even accessing half of the map. And after the story, there's no real push to explore the rest because there are no side quests. The "Detours" are shallow & there are only a handful of them. They give no real rewards & don't progress the story. A lot of the map is just empty space, & what is out there to explore is basically the same thing again & again. Every marker on the map is like, ""Defeat the enemy. Win a cloak,"" ""Defeat the enemy. Win a necklace,"" ""Defeat the enemy. Win some fingernail paint."" The combat is a lot of fun, but it's the ONLY thing to do in the game. There's one minor mechanic for sneaking up on "familiars," which are just cats with wings and/or horns, & each one takes like 10 seconds to do, & there are dozens of them. Everything else is just combat-based. ""Defeat these waves of enemies. Maybe defeat this boss at the end."" They should've broken it up with some racing missions utilizing the parkour or a couple of mini-games. And they should have had more towns or villages where people can be interacted with, because outside of the main city, there's just hostile lands with nothing but fighting & cat-taming. The economy is a complete joke. For completing any of these missions, you get things like Old Coins. I ended the game with around 150 Old Coins. There are maybe 50 coins worth of items you can actually purchase & I already purchased all of them. Same for the "Mana" you gather to unlock spells. After you've unlocked them all, there's nothing to do with Mana at all. I ended the game with over 1000 Mana gathered & it **** that it's just there, doing nothing. This more than anything made the game & its side missions feel kind of pointless. There was no drive to complete most of the side quests because my reward is just more coins and Mana that I already can't spend. The equipment is another issue. There are only 2 wearable items - cloak & necklace. And they can all be upgraded as high as you'd like using the same materials. But this means that once you've sunk a lot of those materials into one set, you don't want to have to start all over with a new set, even if you find something that you think looks cooler & you'd like to wear. Because each item you find starts out way lower than a set you've already invested in, so you'd have to spend all of your resources to get one set even up to par with what you're already using, when you could just continue to upgrade your existing set to higher levels. I only changed these items once early on in the game & after that, I couldn't justify starting over on new items at a much lower level than the set I was already wearing. I don't know what they were thinking when they decided to set the equipment up this way. Overall, there is a lot of fun to be had here but it has major problems that keep it from being a "great" game. If more time & care was spent on the activities in the world & the rewards for completing them, this could've been an instant classic. Instead, it's just "pretty fun" with a lot of confusing choices made by the developers.