What a beautiful setting. What a mediocre, disassociated story. What flat, unimpressive characters. What a terrible camera. What annoyingly linear gameplay.

This is a game you will love for its setting, want more from its setting, wish this setting was elaborated in an unending series of novels, and made its way into a TV series that got cancelled 3 seasons in. It is just so frustratingly beautiful.

I recommend it so you will develop a tragic love-hate relationship with it like I did.

Edit in 2021: I forgot to mention there's a game breaking bug that makes it impossible to actually finish the game inside a boss room but you didn't need to know that, right? And no, there's no fix for it. Capcom don't care. ENJOY!