To be completely fair to Caribdis, this game was a long project and was completed before he started on Eternum. I absolutely agree that Eternum is a better game, but part of that's because THIS game was completed, cleaned up and finished before he even started Eternum.
It's easy to track Caribdis' progress and growth by comparing the two games; that said, we wouldn't HAVE Eternumn of Caribdis wasn't a badass who actually finished one game before starting the next one.
And FWIW, I still liked the heck outta this game - even with its stumbles, and some seriously goofy story stuff, it still kept me engaged enough to WANT to finish it. YMMV, of course, just my 2 cents. :)