A Mission-log and a "Skip"-button away from the perfect game
That said, the game has one major flaw. You don't get much guiding. It happened to me on more then one occasion that I did not know what to do next. But you get by somehow. The problem is that you have no possibility to travel back once you left an area and since you do not know what side quests you can do you end up at the end of the game with 55% of the game done and no way of completing the missing quests but to start over. And the next time, you will still miss a lot of quests...
So I had to get a walkthrough for the second playing through not to actually get help for bosses but just to find out which side quests I could start in which chapter and what I had to do for it.
The second problem are the videosequences. They are awesome, don't get me wrong. And the story is great and deep. But there is no possibility to turn the videos of. So on the second playthrough you might not want to watch another 60 minutes of videosequences but you have to.
So my final judgement, this game is a mission log (or at least a kind of counter proclaiming "You have now done 4 of 6 side quests avaiable in this chapter!") and a "Skip video sequence"-button away from a ten point rating.