Unfortunate, that's the best word to describe this game. Had a great deal of potential, it really did, but it was squandered away on a sub par product. This game was death by a thousand paper cuts.
The story itself was great, well paced, and interesting. Unfortunately, it was horribly buggy, such as when it decided that I really should't be able to shoot my gun anymore during combat (you have to put it away and re-draw it to be able to shoot in those situations).
Picking up items was also a bit less then stellar. If you aren't positioned in the right way around them, you don't even know you can pick something up. The option is not there.
The mini-map is not that, just a radar that shows you where things may be on a black background.
You don't know what time it is, ever! In a game that has battle robots, you cannot find out whether it is morning, afternoon, evening, or, in some places, night. I know what you'd say, night is when it's dark, well, normally you'd be right, but not in this case.
Dialogue is wooden, and not just from my character. You stop noticing it after a while, but at first it hits you like a bad high school play (to be fair, many high school plays were actually a bit better).
Graphics leave a great deal to be desired. I mean, there is no reason why these should look barely better than what I used to play on my old PS2.
Did I mentioned that during many of the longer fights, like with the final boss, my gun would just stop shooting? At first I thought that whatever I was fighting just paralyzed me or something, but no, it was just the game glitching.
Overall, the game had so much potential, and it was all squandered one annoyance at a time. I'd say don't bother with it unless you can get it for less than $20. Anything else and you overpaid.