The actual merging parts are very short and ungratifying, for me its not worth the constant interruptions to tell the story to be able to play for a min and then have to follow a bunch of explanations, tracking game currency, etc. For those needing all the jumping back and forth between play and story to feel accomplished this might be good. For those just wanting to zone out on merging things to create more things to merge to eventually reach a next level, this isn't it.