To be honest, I feel like people are too shitty about the story. I think it's very servicable and even decently fine. If I were to listen to people talk about it, I'd imagine it was the worst thing ever. It's not gonna win any writing awards, but I never felt I was being shortchanged on anything.
I think the game itself, though... it has more low points than high points for me. Particularly low is the
open world zones. Dunno if TC is there yet so spoiler warnings
, but I also feel like the combat gets repetitive and see little reason to experiment deeply with the many combo options. A few of them always just seem superior in every situation.