The problem with BoN is that he is a great artist 3D artist... but dunno if he is his own wirter and/or coder for the game, but whoever is behind that part of the work... I bet it's BoN himself, but man he should seek for a bit of help with the coding and the writing part of the game, which are clearly the waker spots of the game.
All we know that the game is heavily bugged, we have had many unplayeable releases that need multiple bugfixes patches within hours to reach a playable status, and some buggs even carried from the original game are still there.
As for the story, as a person who likes to write and script storys... I mean, you can like BoN's story-telling style, is simple, direct, and has a lot of "Deus es machina"... but I have ever fantasized with the idea of BoN letting me become the writer of the game and making a great story with the characters, cause we all know what makes this games great: the characters.
It's such a waste that characters with that great potential had it wasted in vanal storys... but thats just my humble opinion after all.