This game can be fun and enjoyable at times, but the repeat combats take much of the fun out of it. I get the feeling that the fights are meant to wear the protagonist down and force them to consume transformative items to make progress, but the same encounters on repeat is mind-numbingly dull. Wearing the protagonist down can be as easily accomplished with fewer and harder fights and an increased chance of events and finds.
The last time I played this game, I stopped reading the hints to each direction to take; I just clicked one at random each time to accelerate things, but it still took hours of meaningless fights to get what I wanted out of the game. In its current state, the game is a grind that strains my patience.
Maybe what I want isn't what the game is meant to provide and maybe what I want isn't what its other players enjoy or want. If that is the case then this game is definitely not for me despite including some things I enjoy. I neither demand nor expect what I want applied to the game. My thoughts and feelings are based entirely on my opinion and preferences that I wanted to share in case what I say does affect the game's development.