How much you enjoy this game depends greatly on how much you enjoy the combat because, judging from a few dozen hours of play so far, there's little else to it. I really don't see what all the hype is about. Yes its pretty good but its not amazing. I found the combat to be underwhelming and often a bit frustrating, and the gameplay outside the combat to be fairly monotonous. I will say it has excellent voice acting across the board. The quality and variation in the voice acting puts the big triple A games to shame. The combat is actually the game's biggest draw and also its biggest flaw. In my opinion it is poorly balanced with the Classic or normal mode being punishingly difficult and the next mode down, explorer not presenting any challenge at all. I was forced to play on that difficulty because I literally couldn't progress with the game after reaching a certain point as every way I turned I was met with an impossible battle. Since then its been a boring cake walk.