I should have liked this game, I mean i Loved Zelda four swords, Xmen (arcade), gauntlet, but to me the game just didn't hook me in, and your right bloodworth i didnt get that far, i kinda gave up on it because i didn't like it.
The camera tends to get in the way and either goes too far away or when zoomed in it is hard to play, the only thing worse they could have done with the camera was not have objects become transparent when objects get too close.
The leveling up was good though. I didn't like the fighting though, it seemed way too easy, except for bosses they tended to bring a challenge.