A week ago it wasn't really on my radar but now I'm excited for it. I really want to see where they go with the story--I felt something interesting was set up in the prologue with Primula, and bits in Grazia. Honestly I haven't been excited for any new game in years... I'm a real cynic. So I hope you're wrong about being killed by scope creep-but I get you. It's obviously a very labor intensive production, as good games tend to be. Well, as long as they are clearly actively developing it, there's hope, and from peeking at some of their webpages, they sure do look to be making steady progress and have some idea of what the chapters will be.