I feel exactly the same. Loads of super positive comments and encouragement from friends as "the best game ever made" made me finally play it and I felt so disappointed. The combat especially is just....not fun at all. The bullet hell combat was fun for about 5 minutes and then urghhhhh. I restarted the second playthrough on the lowest possible difficulty just to avoid having to actually play it, all based on the promise of "the game gets fantastic on the 3rd playthrough". Well, it didn't for me, thank you.

And I absolutely agree about the story - it's not "deep" in any possible way. If you ever played any sci-fi game ever in your life you can probably guess the "incredible and deeply philosphical" twist in the first playthrough. Maybe if this is your first entry into video games it will blow your mind, but really.....meh.

However, I have to agree - the soundtrack is incredible. Some of my friends went to listen to it live performed by the London Orchestra, I wish I went.