Has a HUGE load of potential, but honestly its very glitchy and needs a lot of work. When I went into combat scenes my screen would be black the whole time and I'd end up losing because of that. When I went to trade with the potion lady it would just take my money and the essence wouldn't work.
What the game REALLY needs badly is a tutorial that goes over everything you need to know, also the lifting mini-game kinda sucks because its pretty hard and you can only have a strong upper body or lower body and not both. Not sure if the potion essence problem was me or what, but again another reason for a thorough tutorial.