>>717180962 (OP)
It's alright.
Good combat. Beautiful characters. Fucking fantastic combat animations. The best I've ever seen in a video game.
But the story is just 'okay,' and the last 20% makes everything kind of pointless and really hurt my desire to replay it.
I thought the exploration was actually pretty bad. There's almost no indication of how strong a boss is to you, with only a red 'Danger' indicator if you're entering certain areas. There were multiple times where I approached a boss and got absolutely hopelessly crushed, then came back after leveling up and beat it in literally 1 or 2 hits, which was obviously just boring. The game only gives you one save file, so that boss fight is gone until you replay the whole game again. You basically have to use a guide if you want to fight the bosses at the right level so they aren't either near-impossible or brainlessly easy.