Summary: The game feels good at first, but grows stale quickly. While the art is good and gives flesh to its world-crafting, this game's shallow story is paired with mediocre narration, built around a very repetitive gameplay.
Battles are tediously long: ~1hour for most, more at the end, waiting for enemies & allies turns A LOT with no way to speed things up. The worst being an optional battle royale map at the end which to fully unlock stuff would require killing 250 enemies; it took me nearly 2h45 to get to 150, after which I let my team die out of boredom.
The boss battles felt extremely similar: vanquish boss mostly through blowing up adenine tanks (a juice made out of soul power), boss suicides & resurrects in a dragon form. Rinse and repeat all the way to the end.
Being used to minmaxing, finishing it was simple, yet I was frustrated with not being able to understand what abilities do in terms of stats: you can't access any character's profile in-combat, and aren't being told anything on the passive abilities' descriptions! Just things like: "this boosts your attack". The active abilities themselves are somewhat well done, albeit with a few outliers.
A few annoying bugs to add to that list: some events not triggering, mostly, which is annoying after spending an hour on a level, I had to start over a few times.
I guess this game works if you want a rather casual tactical experience, not investing yourself much in its system or story, and may play 1hour+ sessions in one go. Otherwise, not worth investing your time in, unless you really dig the genre and/or this game's style.
