lmao it was pretty bad, i don't know if i've ever played a game that actively wants to waste your time so badly, but it was fun and i'm glad i finally did it! almost every since quest from chapter 2 onwards is "run to the other side of the island to look at a thing, come back and tell me what you see, then run back out there to do something at the spot location if you run into trouble (which you will), run out to the OTHER other side of the island to do 4 fetch quests for this npc so they can give you the ok to do the thing you were gonna do at first". it's just like 11 hours of that
the vector art is pretty when it's there tho!! and the music is just two 1:20 tracks on loop the entire time with no break, but they're so good and chill that they don't drive you up the wall. it's been one of those games that's inspired me since i first played it when i was like 8 or 9 and playing through it now it's no longer impossible because now i'm a game developer and can see when the scope creep obliterator was brought down on the team and all the mechanics were turbo simplified, so having attributes of defence and damage bonus for each of the 6 elements i can now see operates off of no elemental synergy system whatsoever, and i can actually spec my character into the shit that lets them win easy peasy
INSPIRING THO cause now i desperately need to write my turn based combat game and actually go ham on the stat/effect buffs i could tell the dev team wanted to do in vnog