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gorgeous visuals and designs (mostly characters, menus, etc.) the level designs could get a little stale but, for its time, still holds up pretty well. the delivery of the backstory/plot through collectible fragments does literally fragment the story a bit, which makes it hard to remember at times what you last learned and how that is related to new tidbits. overall a creatively ambitious attempt worth exploring, maybe restricted a tad by its game-making prowess
some of the best gameplay yet for the franchise, especially thanks to the spells and dedicated melee weapons. writing could’ve used some more editing, but it was serviceable or ignorable (occasionally chuckled). the end game definitely needs work, which probably won’t ever happen, and the DLCs are very phoned in and overpriced.