This felt right to play again after Sea of Stars and it holds up for the most part. On my first playthrough, I didn't really agree with the main criticisms about the second half of the game as I enjoyed exploring and 100% it. On a second playthrough, I can understand these points a little better. Momentum can just halt depending on how you approach to collect everything and there are certain areas that don't have fast travel points, which is kind of tedious.

The story is very much shoved into the back half as well, but for a second playthrough I was skipping through dialogue anyways. There were a few things I read and I still found it very funny with its meta humorous shopkeeper character. Another issue I had was a particular boss fight that I found kind of difficult to do because it shifted back and forth so quickly that my slightly photosensitive eyes couldn't really look at the screen. That's on me though.

Those points aside, the visuals and OST are top notch and this was certainly something worth replaying!