I played the original years ago and struggled badly with it, giving up after 10 or so hours. In the following years, I read the entire series of books (both the saga and the short story collections) and thus went into this with a lot more familarity and enthusiasm. Unfortunately...I hated it. The interminable backtracking through a dull environment. The voice acting (who on earth thought Dandelion should sound like that?!). The shallow combat, with dubious hit detection and strikingly limited animations. The performance (framerate drops on a GTX1080, with ubersampling off and at 1080p). The way you have to be angled just so to interact with objects. The drawn-out cutscenes. The QTEs. The cheap boss battles. Such a disappointment.
