I'm Probably a little late here, but yes, I have played it. I enjoyed it very much.
The story/cutscenes are quite fantastic. Combat is a little meh. There isn't exactly a lack of endgame, but rather, it's just a standard gear grind with a handful of raids/dungeons and is very hardcore.
There isn't any levels or classes in the game, rather, anyone can use any weapon, and you build through the skill trees of those weapons with "AP". You don't really have to worry about making any wrong choices, you can obtain enough AP over time to unlock all the skills for all weapons, if you like.
Progression in that matter is in the form of "missions", which is just another name for "quests", really. However, a lot of these missions aren't your standard "kill 10 wolves" bullshit. Similar to running some old DDO quests for the very first time, there are plenty of missions that will make you use your noggin'.
There are different types of missions. The complex ones usually have a green "computer" icon, and are referred to as "research" missions. Some of them are just so over the top cryptic, that unless you're a real Sherlock Holmes, you'll be googling for the answer.
It's nice, because there are so many non-combat related elements in these missions, so you can be having fun and making progression like that. Unfortunately, the replay value does suffer a little bit, when you know everything, but that's a given for "quests" in any game.
All in all, I would say it's most definitely worth it for the first playthrough experience.
Hope you have fun if you get or got it.
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