Masteria Through Time - Blockbuster impressions

My first impression was

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how little I was invested in the characters, mainly because they are mostly all new. It was the same old good against evil, must stop bad people from doing bad things. But who is really the bad one, is it x or x? However I know they will grow on me. Large parts of the story didn't make much sense at all, but maybe it will :3

Gameplay

Clunky: I really don't like how we're constantly switching between cutscene/zoomed-in cutscene/normal play - and every such switch is accompanied by a second or two of black screen. Very jarring, and really interferes with immersion. Cutscenes drag out and dialog takes forever to move (and this is on a pretty powerful computer).
On the other hand, the text shown in yellow from the side, which just appears and disappears on its own and can't be paused or reviewed...

Yeeeeeah that was pretty annoying, it felt chunky and badly timed. Didn't really know when to move at times, sometimes tried to move but was still frozen.

The positive impressions so far, well the designs and graphics are simply stunning, and the music is even more stunning. All over I really enjoyed it, not as much as Black Heaven or Athanaeum stories, but still soild. Looking forward to act III.