Puzzle isn't really my type of genre for a video game. Well I played millions of JRPG, but I'm more focused on the story & characters. But it is a breath of fresh air playing this type of game while paying attention to the lore? There's an actual lore & story in this game? Of course I'm interested.

Yes it's tedious, I can't even playing this game without a guide & watching YouTube video (I know, I sucked). Even after 19 hours of gameplay I still know nothing about the story & just keep focusing on that tiresome puzzles, because turns out, it has multiple storyline. But as I keep playing, time goes really fast. The story was indeed very interesting & well written, probably too good for this type of game. I could dig with the story, but it's still a bit confusing since it's dealing with some philosophical stuff. Imagine you've already got irritated by an annoying puzzles & still have to interpret the lore of this game, 100% I would recommend everybody to play this game.

Over 100 hours of gameplay.
Became the most comfy video game I've experienced in my my whole life. Easily my second favorite video game of all time just behind Utawarerumono Futari no Hakuoro. Storywise, it's magnifique, got tears in my eyes. For the gameplay, sure it's a grindfest, especially when you reach the 2nd half of the game, but surprisingly I can't get mad at it. I don't know if it's because this is the first NIS game I've played, but I don't thing that's the reason.
This is truly a great dungeon crawler game.