This story made me tear up at multiple points. What a masterfully emotional game. I loved getting to know the people of New Eden. Figuring out the truth. Learning their stories. The lore is fascinating. The combat is fun and fast paced. The ending felt satisfying. So many amazing npcs. I really got caught up in Red and Antea's love story.

THERE IS A NEED FOR MORE GAMES LIKE THIS , EXCELLENT GAME BRILLIANT GRAPHICS BUT IT HAS LEFT ME WANTING MORE SO VERY MUCH MORE. DON'T STOP NOW WE NEED MORE STORIES AND A SEQUEL

An [Okay] RPG game with choices and a pretend-to-be detective vibe, with great graphics that are on par with 2024 yet the visual landscapes are too realistic and ordinal, nothing rememberable or special. Has a good story but non-lasting gameplay and gameplay/flow is really slow in all aspects.

The prolog is long af, and the first starter mission is also quite long, like solid 2-3 hours long. This becomes really slow and probably is where the majority would fall off because it does not ramp up, it remains slow.

The main story is good but there's an issue with it. They pretend she is truly innocent while she did "shelter" a real witch, yeah she aint one but she knew who was one and died for it, in the eyes of small folk witches are real and bad because they are real, they get blamed for being bad yet nonetheless, she was not fully innocent.
And the side story flow is terrible, while the majority of the quests have the same plot -> someone has done something objectively horrible -> is haunted for it -> forgive or kill them, that's around 70% of all quests, including the main one. The exploration and traveling are not interesting enough to spent so much time running from A to B to A to C to A.

The side quest and story have the biggest flaw of all detective games where you are not actually a detective, you follow a linear discovery of clues and are fed with the whole plot through it, not having to think or deduce or wonder if you about to murder or forgive a lying murderer is not that fun.

The exploration has the biggest issue, it is treated as it is fun to run around while it aint, it is for the first quarter of the game, but then falls off as it's just the same, in fact, all of the game stays the same after around a quarter of it, you do get new skills but that doesn't really shake things up. One of the main issues with exploration is that random "Metroidvania" elements, which does not fit the style/gameplay; this pass is blocked, come back later after you unlock the game. The first major unlock is about at 33% of the game, and the third is around 60%, so you are either faced with rushing the main story to get those unlocks and explore freely or face the disappointment of realizing you cannot go there now, come back later when you have no more reason to be here as you have completed the side quest that sent you here, which is simply disappointing.

Combat variety is lackluster, with not much variety in enemies or enemy types, it gets boring after a few hours, and if you start doing quite long sidequests you are just repeating the same combat and same exploration patterns for hours, with non-impactful rewards. The one good part of it was the random affixes on "activity" that had a basic melee/lunge/parry/range or one of the abilities does more damage, so you change your playstyle for it.

Gearing is somewhat okay but is very simple and lacks any complexity, you pick the gear with the stats you want, you gather the resource on your way to a mission, you upgrade to increase stats, and that's it. Skill upgrade choices felt unimpactful as well.

Overall, it's way too slow, way way too slow, nothing is captivating, neither the gameplay nor exploration, story choices are the only good part yet they have no consequence on you, and 90% of side quests are not worth it. If you pick this up, I'd recommend focusing on the main story only, forgetting about everything else.