Do be fair, it sounds like Hong made some good use of the book. And I think a few things in it are nifty. It's just that I feel that to get the good out of it, you have to do a bit of filtering.
I haven't seen a book that I haven' had to do that to.
While I do, in general, think that balancing mechanics against roleplaying restrictions is a somewhat bad idea, I liked a lot of the stuff in the book, even the rules that had mechanics balanced by roleplay.
