Main story is a straightforward "good vs bad". Main character comes with a somewhat interesting twist, all others don't have much depth. Ship handling and combat feel fine, ship upgrades are grind-based. And boy, there is a lot of grind intended. As you travel from A to B, you are constantly tempted by "unknown signals" and "distress calls", which lead to procedurally generated encounters from a pretty small pool which gets old really fast. Yes, I mean the industry-standard "destroy base/outpost", "kill X bad guys".. does that really make the game bigger and better? I think not.

In the last third of the game that becomes even more obvious, as the game keeps taking you through rather long and boring flights from one gate to another. There are some fairly well-designed puzzles, wish their number was higher. I've done some light grinding, which yielded me 4 out of 6 unlocked ship perks and 1/6 in each ship upgrade category. I dread to think how much time is intended to max out everything.