so, i finished the 3.0 version of the game, just about done with(almost) all the content. here's some of my observations: the pacing and side stories are very good overall, I actually like almost every charachter in the game. That said there are a few things i'd like to talk about:
-dialogue:nothing much to say other than that I really like the various attitudes that the Mc can adopt to flourish the discourse, only minor gripe is that it requires a lot of inputs going through some scenes, especially if there are multiple charachters involved and the Mc is not the focus (shopkeeper inside tavern and carp and forge scenes).
-currency: while the ether given by combat is quite generous it's also quite hard to balance between levelups and skill training wich require similar amounts of the same resource. I admit that to satisfy my ocd for skill collecting I focused most on those, having to grind for late game figths...
-combat: speaking of, it has the most gripes I have on this game, it feels fine early in the game but the overall feeling is that it's too fast and hectic (especially in three particular fights). Enemies have perfect turns and action economy AND they scale with the level of your group(levelling feels counterproductive and less useful). The combat also could last even less of the time it takes you to parse through dialogue, making successive defeats due to bad rng feel very aggravating. it's not all as bad as it seems( tho, I might also be bad) but there are a couple of problematic fights i'd like to point out.
-locke second quest: if aoe misses, you missclick once or you get unfortunate targeting the fight is over a couple tendrils resurrections. Second phase is sligtly easier but still hard.
-shade first phase: you need to be levelled (8/9) and rushing her is the only viable strategy, and even then you could simply automatically lose to rng if she hits either hunter or you first. felt like gambling, if she hit knave ( the only one she does not one shot) twice during an attemp it felt doable. The other phases were fine.
-plantwolf third form: is this guy even reasonably beatable?
with everything said and done, I love this game and I am excited for it's future releases.