not underrated, just plain terrible.
the graphics in this game are decent. that is the only nice thing there is to say about it. plenty of bad things to say though...a few of which would be forgivable, but believe me they stack up into a big mess really quickly.
combat is generic and repetitive. enemy AI is inexcusably bad. large enemies like bosses/minibosses in particular like to get stuck in walls, stand there motionlessly, or sometimes even walk around in a little circle over and over again as you slowly kill them.
controls are messy and unresponsive. pressing the movement stick down to duck is NOT good and will end up making you duck instead of move out of the way more than you would think. spell menu is poorly made and you'll end up on the wrong part of the menu in the middle of a fight.
no run. no jump. there's a dodge, but it's worthless. the times you most need to dodge are the times you encounter things like snipers and huge debris/vehicles thrown at you that kill you instantly...but you CANNOT dodge them. I don't mean it's too hard to, I mean it literally tells you in a hint window you cannot dodge these things.
level design seems to stick to corridor type areas or huge semi-open city areas. problem with those open areas is there is no map or direction indicator and no real way to know where you're supposed to be going. there are a lot of pointless dead end areas. some of them are just empty. some of them have enemies in them, though you gain absolutely nothing for killing these extra enemies. some of them will even have checkpoints for some reason. why the hell would you need a checkpoint for a pointless dead end?? who knows...
and the dialogue is horrible. horrible like an old NES/SNES game. terrible translation, terrible delivery, terrible characters. the plot, what little of it there is, is equally weak.
I cannot believe that the same people that made Drakengard and Nier did this. this is the kind of unfinished garbage you usually see from some strange brand new independent European publisher as a budget title and that anyone would defend this as a "decent/underrated action game" is utterly baffling. it's not even worth the $8 I foolishly spent on it.