I think it's boring that everyone is a magician, your characters, all the enemies, no matter what they are.
Also the second island looks like Fort Joy too, that got me a bit disappointed, i was expecting the first island to have it's unique tone and setting and then something entirely new would come - new vegetation, new textures and unique buildings.. Not that the fort joy setting was bad, but eh, i like the games a bit more varied.
Story and companions starts off OK, some of them were interesting, the more i played the more its shows Larian were more interested in doing a combat simulator type of game, story is very secondary, and really bad, game could have perhaps even been better without one.