The main praise this game gets is for the visuals. It ought to be very beautiful, but although they're going for a watercolour style, it's all vector artwork and the crisp lines aren't doing it any favours, just giving me Flash game vibes. All the concepts for an amazing look are there, but it just doesn't do it for me.
As for gameplay, to start with it was just extremely boring with a lot of running around an empty world without much to do and I almost quit, but the longer you play it the better it gets. After it introduces some new mechanics and light puzzles, it feels like I'm actually playing a game. Even the environments and creatures get better later on. I guess it's better than starting well and getting worse.