I feel like there was something I didn't understand when I tried this. It seemed really difficult or grindy to progress. I gave up at the bees. Everything I saw was great though. Edit - I played this back in May if anything has changed since.
Played this version until the first boss. Gameplay is much better. I didn't feel like I needed to grind this time and even if I did the combat was much easier. I crashed once going into the last casino bit, but the autosave was perfect.