The game just kind of drags, I had a bit of fun hack and slashing my way through but honestly theres just too many different game mechanics that are boring and annoying.

Theres a mechanic where your castle makes a different set of currency which only accrues over time (real time, things take hours) and i got around this by leaving the game running while i did other things and coming back to lots of money so that i can actually advance the smithery and such.

I really didnt like the 'skirmishes' a dynasty warriors style fighting except its dumbed down to the simpliest degree, I feel like they shouldnt have put skirmishes in at all. There arent that many in an upward level advancing way that makes sense.

it was extremely frustrating that skirmishes were required in the final boss, I had never leveled them up at all because most of the game it hardly felt mandatory.

theres like a billion side quests that dont have any meaningful dialogue.

I could go further but i literally gave up when i had to do a multi stage skirmish just to initiate the final boss battle, only for the final boss to have a board wipe skill that insta killed my under-leveled skirmish squad because i had virtually no incentive to level it up through out the game.

I hate skirmishes, and being forced to grind it for the final boss just made me give up.

about 40 hours of my gameplay time is AFK farming the castle currency to build up the castle so i can actually smith good gear.