This is such a disappointment. Boasts 190 Cgscenees but most are just a few second cutaways with very little context or warning. Also be prepared for piss/scat stuff with no warning or option to turn it off.
The combat is a chore. Massively stat-padded enemies with bloated HP pools and the most ridiculous encounter rate I've seen in an RPG. I normally like to play these games organically but I've reduced the difficulty down to the easiest of the game's 7(!) difficulty settings. While you can't reduce the encounter rate directly, you can equip items that reduce the rate by half. You can wear multiple and I believe they stack but multiplicatively rather than additively so you can't reduce the rate to 0.
Also there are some truly bizarre design decisions. You can only save at predetermined save points even on the world map. Menu screen doesn't show party stats, you have to go into the status screen to check HP, MP and status. Not one but two supposed-to-lose boss fights in short succession.
I was going to push on as the promotional material shows some good scenes but some quest text hasn't been translated to Englsh and so I don't know where to go
Maybe it gets better but I've played for about 2 hours so far and have very little desire to carry on
