Thanks for the warning on that spoiler, I would have clicked it otherwise.
Some jimmy rustling below, despite the fact that I am still really enjoying the game. Kind of illustrates how much I've been dying for a game like this, despite what looks like a massive wall of complaints.
Played a decent amount last night, finished that first large building with the mage in it, and it highlighted a few things that I wish they would have included in the game. First and foremost, a way to make notes on the map. I can't tell you how much time I spent wandering all over that fucking place trying to find places I had passed previously but didn't have the necessary items etc. to complete it at that time. If I could have made notes it really would have fucking helped and saved me a ton of time. In fact, there are still one or two spots there that I couldn't finish, and if I ever find/figure out how to finish them, it will take me forever to find the spots again.
An aside, I got a pretty shitty bug that was driving me fucking insane. Without going into spoilery detail, I got to the room with the elevator, and did everything I could in it. Stepped in the elevator, but the button wouldn't let me press it. So I spent HOURS running all over trying to see if I had missed an area, and yeah there is the one area I can't figure out, requires you to put something related to health in it, which seemed fairly easy to me but asks for 3 items, so I'm stumped. So I'm like fuck it, I'm taking a break, and log off in the elevator room. Decide to give it one more try before bed, log in (takes fucking forever of course, not on an ssd), and for funsies I step into the elevator again. Lo and behold, the fucking button works! I literally did nothing else story-wise, all I did was quit and start again, and now it worked. I wasted so much fucking time on that glitch, I can't even begin to describe the rustling of my jimmies.
The other thing that is beginning to annoy me is the limitation of my mastery bar. Someone further ahead tell me if I'm always going to have to choose 3 or 4 skills to use in combat, despite having many more. That's the height of bullshit there, if that continues. Add on to that the apparent inability to refund your skill points, and now I have a bunch of skills that I never would have bought if I knew I would never get to fucking use all of them. My fucking rogue, who cuisinarts shit with his awesome skills, can't even hide in fucking shadows anymore because I chose to give him yet another damage-dealing skill to use instead. I would have bought more passives and armor skills if I had realized I had to pick only a couple. And my fucking bard only gets 3???? FUUUUUUUUCK YOU. Please tell me I get more later. What's the point of all these skills if I never get to use all of them? I'm not gonna hand-pick my skills before every battle based on what I think I'll need.
Oh, another bug that really fucked with me at first. I turned down my settings to high to make it run a little smoother, and apparently it glitched or something and took me to what has to be the low setting. I noticed that the world looked like shit, but didn't realize just how bad it was so didn't think anything of it. Well, I go to try to solve a puzzle weapon for my first time in the game, and the textures are so horrible that I literally can't see what I'm doing. But I don't know that this is a graphical problem, I assume that's just how the fucking puzzles are. So I literally was just randomly clicking shit because I had no idea what I was doing, and even managed to solve a segment or two. Later, I realize that the world looks extra fucking shitty and turn it back to Ultra, just with a few things off, and not only does the world look amazing (in comparison anyway) now, but I can see ALL the fucking details on those puzzle weapons! How do you even allow that to be a thing? How can changing your graphic settings make it so you literally cannot see the puzzles? I'd think you could override a couple of settings to ensure that those textures at least showed when inspecting. If I HAD to play at a lower setting, I'd have no clue how to even approach those puzzles.
Despite all that, I still really enjoy the game. Which is maybe sort of depressing, when I think about it.