Well, then get your fill of quests before you hit the gong. (It'll make sense when you get there.) The end section of the game is entirely hack-and-slash. It wasn't meant to be, but deadlines insisted. Thankfully the ending's not too long.
Actually, I don't believe the ending is bad because it is hack and slash. It is bad because it is excessively easy hack and slash. Those gargoyles for instance. They just hover there doing nothing while you fire away at them. The only challenge is Josephine and she really isn't that hard if you use the right skills.
The whole beginning in the catacombs is all hack and slash, but it is challenging and fun. That battle after you kill the Necromancer might even be the best of the game--challenging, with tactics required. You could actually die --unlike the ending.
