Good game, but as any GTA style game at the end it feels as a hollow experience that gives you nothing or changes anything for you. A better story than other games of this kind that mistake a great story with creating a complex convoluted puzzle script instead of making a smaller and more straightforward script but with powerful moments as Sleeping Dogs. The two DLC's are terrible.
I think it's too critiziced, it sure has flaws as being created with consoles in mind instead of pc and all that. Not being that profound as the first one, or at the end it could be resumed to not being at the level of the first one in almost anything. But that maybe is too much to ask, if we don't search that then you will find a really interesting game, nice gameplay, a great atmosphere, amazing ambient music, story and so.
Atmosphere, artstyle and music are wonderful, a real masterclass at creating a dark fantasy mood, setting and aesthetic. But the mechanics and gameplay have many flaws even if they are better than the previous Demon Lord Reincarnation (that one is being remade, maybe also because of those reasons). I haven't played the second part of Dragon Ruins yet but it seem to have improved some of those flaws. Still many things have to be polished by this developer who has a true diamond under all those imperfections.