I think there are way to many quests where you are just running back and forth doing little to nothing, especially how boring many of the tablets are to collect. For example, ripped from my review,

1) Talk to a guy in the who mentions someone won a fragment here.

2) Go to guys house and find out he's back at the gambling hall.

3) Even though you know who the guy is if you talked to him before, and you will see him in the tunnel exiting the gambling hall, you first have to talk to the bunny girl in the who mentions him.

4) Talk to him to find out he sold the fragment to the armor shop keeper.

5) Armor shop keeper wife tells you he is at the Beacon.

6) Traverse the beacon (Which you have already been through) and talk to him at the top to find out a priest now has it.

7) Go to church, find out the Priest isn't there, find out he's gambling.

8) Priest denies having fragment, leaves.

9) Talk to a nearby nun and find out priest has been messing around in front of the alter late at night.

10) Find fragment in front of the alter.

This is the worst example, but there are a few like it.

And all the times you go to the present only to run around talking to NPC's that have nothing of interest to say in order to advance the story? It's a lot of wasted time I felt.