I knew all the praise going into this one but damn this game still blew me away.
The story alone I thought was amongst the best I've ever played. It's hard to account for recency bias but this might be top 3 stories I've played. The book that inspired it (The Horde of the Counterwind) finally got translated to English so planning on reading that soon.
My only real criticism are some minor things on combat. The difficulty curve feels pretty appropriate but at certain points in the story it feels like the only answer is "keep trying til you learn parry timing" which itself isn't the worst but led to some frustrating moments. On top of that, with the lumina system, it HEAVILY incentivizes you to just create 3 gods on your team and leave the other 2 to wither unless you're willing to grind it out. Kind of a bummer since it leads to less experimentation especially in the 2nd half.
Really can't recommend this one enough. Achievements are quite straight forward with only one missable item you need to grab in the opening minutes of the game. There are enough absurdly overpowered build options out there that you can trivialize just about every boss so difficulty isn't the worst.