I was on the fence for that review, leaning towards an unconvinced thumbs up until the very last fight. It reminded me of all those ♥♥♥♥♥♥ monsters I faced along the way with massive resistances/blocks, drains and controls. It's not fun, I had no idea I was supposed to hit that central structure because the game said "hit the rings" so I thought I was supposed to hit the 2 portals I could not target. It's grindy, lacks a clear objective, doesn't even show if hitting that structure does anything.
Enemies casting controls on you all the time is a terrible game mechanic. Watching the initiative bar skipping your characters effectively prevents you from playing the game, the player becomes spectator.

The game does that a few times, also throwing hit sponges at you and making some characters useless so you have to respec or change group composition. I wouldn't mind on hard difficulties, but on the lowest it just makes the game artificially longer and frustrating.

It does not respect your time as a player.

It's not all bad: I loved the art, I enjoyed the banter, I love that old basic gameplay loop. It's just a disappointing execution.
The itemization is also very bland, with most equipment barely giving any stat upgrade at the very end compared to what you got at the very beginning.
The skills are OK but you never really unlock any powerful one, and the decent stuff you can barely use as you run out of energy fast being constantly drained.
At least the price is decent.