as someone learning lua this game is humbling. the magic system where you pick a base magic then layer a fighting style and a weapon on top, and it all scales off your stat build, is genuinely clever design. thats a huge web of modules talking to each other cleanly, damage, status effects like burning and freezing, magic clashes. sailing is real physics too, your ship takes plank by plank damage. the whole ocean is basically seamless so the streaming is doing heavy lifting. i notice frame dips in the big war seas fights and some ability hitboxes feel generous, but for the scope one team pulled off, this is the bar. studying how they structured it.