Really wanted to like the game as its so beautiful graphically and once you get past the snooze of a beginning that takes entirely way too long doing mundane boring garbage tasks for people that they make up an arbitrary excuse for why they cant just go do it themselves the story actually gets kinda good and interesting. that being said the combat is just complete and utter ass, if you're fighting just one person it can honestly be very fun and even 2 opponents can be a fun challenge but 3 or more and there's literally no point to even trying. they will either stomp you into the dirt or run you down if you try to get away and THEN stomp your ass into the dirt. which can get very frustrating at times especially since even your first few missions that will pit you against any actual enemies give you 4-6 opponents. the combat controls themselves are just jank, theres no other word for it just jank as all hell. I've tried mnk and controller and neither made a difference I'm always missing combos because the system cant seem to differentiate between up and down and left and right accurately. it is also 100% a solo game, the only companion you can get is a dog that is utterly useless until you get the houndmaster skill to at least 5 for the sic perk so he'll actually do what the game tells you he will when you first get him. and after that he's still not really worth taking as all he does when not fighting is howl his head off and get in the way when you try to do literally anything else, and god forbid you try to stealth with him around he'll just run between you and whoever your trying to knock out/kill alerting them and the rest of the camp. the save system is also so utterly asinine it gave me a headache from the sheer stupidity of it. you cannot save whenever you want only when sleeping, quitting, starting a new quest or predetermined times during a quest. and if you would like to save you need a special alcoholic beverage that can be bought or brewed, dont want spend your money or time picking herbs and brewing potions to become an alcoholic just to save your game? too bad ♥♥♥♥ you dont save then. all in all it seemed like a great game with good potential held back buy ♥♥♥♥♥♥ systems and game mechanics.

Really wanted to like the game as its so beautiful graphically and once you get past the snooze of a beginning that takes entirely way too long doing mundane boring garbage tasks for people that they make up an arbitrary excuse for why they cant just go do it themselves the story actually gets kinda good and interesting. that being said the combat is just complete and utter ass, if you're fighting just one person it can honestly be very fun and even 2 opponents can be a fun challenge but 3 or more and there's literally no point to even trying. they will either stomp you into the dirt or run you down if you try to get away and THEN stomp your ass into the dirt. which can get very frustrating at times especially since even your first few missions that will pit you against any actual enemies give you 4-6 opponents. the combat controls themselves are just jank, theres no other word for it just jank as all hell. I've tried mnk and controller and neither made a difference I'm always missing combos because the system cant seem to differentiate between up and down and left and right accurately. it is also 100% a solo game, the only companion you can get is a dog that is utterly useless until you get the houndmaster skill to at least 5 for the sic perk so he'll actually do what the game tells you he will when you first get him. and after that he's still not really worth taking as all he does when not fighting is howl his head off and get in the way when you try to do literally anything else, and god forbid you try to stealth with him around he'll just run between you and whoever your trying to knock out/kill alerting them and the rest of the camp. the save system is also so utterly asinine it gave me a headache from the sheer stupidity of it. you cannot save whenever you want only when sleeping, quitting, starting a new quest or predetermined times during a quest. and if you would like to save you need a special alcoholic beverage that can be bought or brewed, dont want spend your money or time picking herbs and brewing potions to become an alcoholic just to save your game? too bad fuck you dont save then. all in all it seemed like a great game with good potential held back buy shitty systems and game mechanics.