Recent reviews by Zelmel

A pretty solid game. Grindy at times to the point of annoyance, but not overly bad. The world building is subtle but good, and the gameplay and power curve build pretty nicely. The end parts of a given tier can be a bit rough, but once you clear them you get some good power time where you can wreck enemies. Endgame gets a bit frustrating because you can only break some stuff once you're basically ready to end the game and have done all the sidequests.

This game is not as good as Bastion. However, given that Bastion is a really high bar to clear, that isn't surprising. This is still a beautiful, interesting, and deep game, it just doesn't have the same immediately gripping "something" that Bastion did. With that said, I look forward to playing through it again to unlock various back story stuff I missed initially and play around with the very interesting combat system some more.