A potentially great action RPG marred by some of the most boring, repetitive world traversal I've ever experienced. You want me to run back and forth across this massive map with nothing going on, outside of fighting the same, annoying enemies every time? Maybe at some point I would've unlocked a mount or fast travel but the game wasn't incentivising me to keep going. I like the character creation and the combat certainly gave me Monster Hunter vibes, but beyond that....nothing of value.

People are saying this is a Japanese development team making a better western RPG than western devs? Am I missing something? Western RPGs have worlds with things in them; this does not.