I haven't played much and im alittle confused on the gameplay, is it more you explore and find your own way or is there a defined path to follow?
i sense I have been playing it seems like game has a set path in way, at least right now. -> for example when comes to experiments or dealing with witch so forth it seems like there set chars you just have to give up or you fail no options no real choice it give you false sense of choice but if you do not pick right choice that game wants you pick you fail it seems. fine example is experiment stuff id there chars i rather give up but i am forced to give up a certain one and I was like o that sucks. same with the dealing with witch, it also seem like you have to play heavy ether mercy or paying cruel there no wish washy movement or you lose it seems. if it was dnd game best way to describe it is this you can ether play Chaotic evil or Lawful Evil but not neutral evil neutral evil is more like evil that is not pure evil or one that plays by rules but one that is self interested in what they want to do doing things how they feel they want to. Chaotic evil is just evil for sack of evil. I bought this on steam. -from what also i gather in story from playing it seems due to dreams that world playing in might be a dream state of your char due to some accident at some school which I hope that is not case and that this is not going turn into one of those weird story where char is paralyzed or in coma and whole thing story what you go through is figment of your mind, cuz that been over played a lot in past in storys and in movies and it always annoys me when it story ends that way, with char waking up or some crape. lol
Wait witch is not that high of a problem to deal with if you don't want to align your self with lawful evil or chaotic evil. If you choose mountain lair you can get warlock and with him you have many ways to deal with the witch. No need to have high mercy or cruelty. My favorite way is to send possessed drunkard to overpower her. Not sure if you can just dump her in to prison after warlock has helped you to overpower her or is giving warlock her powers a must. Still witch is not a problem if you are worrying about being too lawful or chaotic. Not sure if infernal or eldritch ally's have ways to deal with her. Never tried because allying with them seems like obviously bad idea. I'm sure you bring some other similar example but this is a visual novel type of game absolute freedom is almost impossible to pull of in this type of game or if you want to have story of any kind.