it took me 2 years to actually finish it. the game is obviously mechanically pretty amazing and impactful for its generation, you gotta give its flowers. but as a game it's very unforgiving and those kinds of games don't motivate me to play them at all. i just finished it because i felt like i had to. did i not enjoy it? well, yeah. once you beat the bosses you were getting fucked by, it feels satisfactory. that's usually about it though, apart from the big world-building and gameplay greatness. absence of story makes me not want to continue the game too.