Words cannot describe how much I hated Eternal Sonata, but that didn't stop me from trying, and I wrote a really long post about the game's many sins in the Eternal Sonata thread.
You're only a few hours in, so I'm sure that at this point, you're thinking that the story seems a bit slow, but it'll probably pick up at some point. It never does. And the characters aren't very interesting so far, but they'll probab- no Josh this is as interesting as they get and yes they're all mentally handicapped for some reason.
It is pretty, though. :p