I exaggerated some, but it is pretty smurfing bad in those regards. I can let a lot go when you take into account time and budget restraints, but it can get tedious real fast. I can only forgive so much.

I'm actually at the part where you ahve some optional stuff to do before the final boss.

I'll keep this brief, cause otherwise I'll give myself a permanent migrane, but smurf Disk 2. Seriously, smurf this disk. I get a massive plot dump of an entire games worth of events your characters have been doing. Gee, I smurfing wish I was there for ANY OF THAT. And A lot of it is very plot relevant.

The worst part? It still doesnt' give you information you would think you'd need.

This story is, at it's core, great in concept. The problem is the actual presentation is bogged down by these ungodly text dumps, badly constructed scenes like Vanderkaum, and smurfing Pupu.

The worst part? I wish this were a bad game. If this was a bad game, I could just pass this all off as the creators being inept. The problem is teh game does a lot right, it has some great Ideas, adn a lot of them are done well. But my god, when the stupid comes, its unrelenting. And it is beyond frustrating for me.

Hell, I was so frustrated at teh text dumps, I broke my original plan of no guides just so I coudl get the smurf through the fights and be done with it.

The best bits have been the History of Locan, Gharf, and Fei on this disk. My care in the council had become non existant. Disk one I loved them, but the problem is by that point you still have no interaction with them and Cain, so when Krillian usurps them it feels like such a distant event I didn't care.

So far, for me, the highlight of the game is Solaris. Specifically Citan. His helping you through, Elly Realizing somethings wrong, his 'betrayal' and the reveal of his workings with Cain. The highlight of that bit was his conversation with Id. Absolutely wonderful stuff that was.

Back with more thoughts once it's over.