Been thinking more about my issues with the game . I think the main problem is in the latter half, there's no strategy. Or rather, any strategy other than the intended one will get you killed. I gave up after the final fight one shot me (I had the moves but often instinctively double click going into battle and accidentally clicking a move I didn't mean to) because the final fight wasn't even a fight, there was no strategy, just "do the one thing that is guaranteed to kill him", more of an easy puzzle than strategy. Not to mention if you take a wrong path you have to grind up all over again. Like, why? It's not that I don't know what to do, but either I'm locked in with a bad moveset and it's just a case of RNG, or I've got the moveset and it's just a case of doing it despite how mindless it is by that point.
Sry if this comes across as harsh, but this game has an enjoyable factor that mean all the issues are so much more bitter.