>>714189382
This. 13 was a mess they heroically tried to fix to ship but wound up making two more games out of the scraps left on the cutting room floor.

>>714189025
It's very very different from prior games, and very story heavy, and they made the horrible decision to tell the story through flashbacks rather than in chronological order so they could have cheap, unearned twists and an in medias res start.

The exploration is non-existent.
The combat is actually amazing with a really high skill ceiling.
The graphics still hold up today, even on release consoles.
The story is extreme melodrama fantasy. Not to everyone's taste.

Overall definitely worth playing once.