It's occurred to me, why is this game even open world? So little effort was put into the world, there's nothing to explore, no reward for exploring, no interesting vistas to view, and the sidequests likewise seem to have had no effort put into them. Is the open world just a way for the designers to justify recycling content?
Need to uninstall this game before I feel any urge to give it another go.

Within the first ten minutes, I was pretty sure I loved this game. It made a great first impression. Now, nearly thirteen hours in, I'm hating it the more I play. The writing is extraordinarily awful, the combat's so boring, the music is so repetitive, the sidequests suck, environments are repeated way too often, god this game is tedious. I thought this game was famous for its story, and a friend recently told me that the overall narrative is great, but he agreed that the stories told throughout the game are generally awful. I'm not sure I wanna go through all that just to see if the ending can deliver. The writing so far has just been so stupid.

Sometimes when I watch an anime renowned for its "sad" story, I feel like it's only sad if you're an emotionally-stunted weeb who's swayed not by the emotional depth of a story's writing, but by forceful melancholic anime voice acting.

This is pretty fun, but the dialogue lmao