gradual drag away from what looked like a dark fantasy
I dunno ...
There are scenes about killing childerns ...
There are scenes including eating sentient beings ...
There are scenes where your character have to participate in torture ...
There are scenes including painful forced transformation into different creature ...
What more "dark fantasy" do you want?

Yes, our characters can have colorfull and pastel pink hair (and beard) ... and yes, animals are able to create whole sentences ... and yes, not whole existence in this world is pure grym, gore and desperation ...
How can this outweight everything that stay in the game is beyond me. O_o