A pretty good game that falls short many areas with repetitiveness, ugly environments and endless back trailing.
I didn't really like the 2d backgrounds much, they chugged along far too much when running around making it painful to see. Its too bad the game ran at such a low resolution, I think it would have helped a lot more having it run at least twice as high.
Gameplay is frustrating and lacking. Some good things, mostly not. You are constantly frozen for a second or two when trying to run to the next enemy, and a lot of enemies have cheap attacks that freeze you and force you to kill them. The combat is just boring and not fun... and theres nothing but endless enemies to fight which makes it worse. The quests aren't all that much fun either. All the characters you help are pretty nameless and as are the towns you visit. Instead of flooding the world with nameless NPCS, they could have tried to give each one a real personality.
I wish they had made places to make keybindings for your attacks, you had to click on the very few they had.
This game at times feels great, but when you are seeing the next mission after mission of backtracking all over the place and trying to get around the maze they have created in the linear map, its too much.
I have a lot of confidence the sequel will beat this game and really be worth playing. Hopefully the world itself will be filled with more interesting things and easy to explore... since in this game its pretty boring and pointless to explore much of it.