Can you say CHOKE
In its defense the game probably doesn't deserve to be rated as bad as it has been, but the build up and following was so huge that it just totally dissapointed everybody; And being trashed by reviewers is an unfortunate off shoot of not delivering on massive hype.
The game had a lot of bugs at launch but that wasn't the dissapointing thing. The devs tried (and failed) to create a world in which everybody was dependent on everyone else. They also tried to give each skill an ability that was going to be useful in the game. The result is one big cluster *%^#. You end up sitting around for hours at a time waiting for docters to heal you/prepare you for fighting, buying spices to boost your ratings (necessary if you want to fight anything in the game worth fighting), and watching musicians to heal battle fatigue/prepare you for battle. And once this fiasco is complete it takes another 30 minutes to get to where you want to go in the universe and then you often get killed quickly and easily and have to do the whole thing over again. And if you want your character to be any good at all then you have to perform boring and repetitive tasks for weeks each day going through the mind numbing task of preparing for battle. WHAT A WASTE OF TIME.
The only redeaming quality of the game is the graphics. The different worlds that were created are as breathtaking as they are vast- it literally takes hours to walk from one end of a world to another, and there were like 7 worlds at launch with more to be added later.
Sadly the graphics don't even begin to make up for the horrible flaws in the combat system and the player interaction. Take my word for it: Stay away from this one, its no good for you.