Solid first outing from Portkey Games. The combat and environments are the highlights of this game. Wand combat is surprisingly fun and the environments and world are filled with love and detail. However the weak elements of the game are the writing and RPG elements. The stories, side and main are mostly all quite forgettable as are your friends and side kicks. There is one standout side quest chain, but it stumbles at the end. The RPG elements, the talent system, dialogue choices, and equipment systems are all incredibly shallow and half-baked and can be totally ignored as they have no or next to no impact on your gameplay or story. The overworld is filled to the brim with copy-paste, Ubisoft-style chores, which can be fun just as excuses to cast more spells and engage in the combat, but the trials and puzzles(some of these magic-based ones are inventive) are mostly braindead and lead to lackluster rewards, and again can and should be skipped.
Great bones to work here from moving forward, but needs some depth and a better story, with those the inevitable sequel could be quite something.