Cons: #1. No mouse support (which makes overworld movement obtuse and menu navigation even more obtuse).
#2. Huge lack of information provided to the player, like when creating your party at the start of the game, or when selecting the difficulty setting, there's almost no information provided.
#3. No reliable fast travel to previously visited locations / towns.
#4. A gigantic amount of platforming.
#5. If you save at a savepoint, and load that save, you're taken back to your single 'home point' instead of spawning at the location where you saved. This makes no sense.

If a reliable form of fast travelling was implemented, then perhaps I could bring myself to shifting my overall opinion to slightly positive, but honestly, the lack of fast travel is going to waste hours and hours of your life in the game, and that's something I can't abide by (I'm not talking about the 11shrines in the game, those don't even take you to 10% of the places you'd want to go, like Nan's place or the fishing place, etc.)... I simply value my time too much to spend it backtracking for hours. I'd honestly rather replay Earthlock or FF9 than play this game anymore. I'll check back in a year or so to see if #1 & #3 was fixed atleast, perhaps then I'll give it another go

Unfortunately, I can't really recommend this. A whole lot of the individual parts are actually pretty good, but they manage to come together to form a massive slog, something that's really far less than the sum of its parts.

For example, individual battles are mostly fun. However, every battle is a steady drain on your very limited resources, so you have the choice of avoiding fights, meaning you'll be underpowered and lacking abilities to fight mandatory fights, or you can grind. It's frustrating, because I chose normal difficulty specifically because it said you shouldn't need to grind. That was an absolute lie. You will need to grind for abilities, and grind for cash to afford better gear and maps, and grind for consumables to sustain your party, either as drops or more money grinding to buy them. You cannot get through this game without a decent amount of grinding, regardless of what the game may tell you.

As another example, the platforming. It's pretty neat in small bouts, and when it works properly it can really lead to an open, intricate feeling world. However, a lot of the jumping paths are long and require many, many precise jumps. And don't think you can savescum these, either. When you reload a save, you're sent back to your last home point, not the point where you saved, which is unspeakably frustrating considering how large some of the maps are. I eventually reached the point where I didn't want to explore anymore because there was just so damn much platforming and it took ages to get anywhere.

Third big example, the job system. Now, I like the jobs I experienced and some of the abilities are interesting. However, many abilities on several classes just felt completely useless. Additionally, because most physical abilities are tied to a specific weapon, you are sorely limited in what abilities you can mix and match. For example, if you level a rogue, most rogue abilities are tied to using a dagger. Switch to a monk, whose abilities use staves or unarmed. Equip trickery as your second ability from the rogue. Now, you can either wield a staff or be unarmed and be able to use all the monk abilities, or waste a passive making yourself able to equip daggers, equip a dagger and be able to use most of the rogue abilities. If you do the first, you have all the monk abilities, but only can only use steal from the rogue. And for the latter, you can use the rogue abilities, but only meditate for the monk. I have no idea why this was designed like this, but it feels awful, and massively incentivizes primarily using magic classes for secondaries, as magic isn't tied to weapons.

Overall, I just got worn out by the game. I set it down to take a break, and realized that I not only had no desire to come back to it, I was really dreading playing more. So no, I can't recommend this one.

Highly recommended. Very impressive JRPG project being worked on by an exceptionally skilled & passionate developer.