Don't listen to reviews complaining about micro-transactions, while its not ideal that they're in the game, EVERYTHING is earn-able in game.
The performance suffers in cities but that doesn't weigh down how incredibly fun the game is, the urge to explore everything is huge because its almost always worth your time, you can be wandering through the woods fighting goblins one minute then find a cave and be fighting a Minotaur the next.
The combat is satisfying, each hit feels great to land and when you knock a Cyclops on its arse after a big swing of your greatsword, you get a nice rush, not to mention if you stagger them, you can grab their legs and push or pull to topple them in a direction you chose.
As for the no 'New Game' button, yeah its a bit weird, it was in the first game but, when they implement it don't expect multiple save files, that's just not what was intended for this game.

Don't listen to reviews complaining about micro-transactions, while its not ideal that they're in the game, EVERYTHING is earn-able in game. The performance suffers in cities but that doesn't weigh down how incredibly fun the game is, the urge to explore everything is huge because its almost always worth your time, you can be wandering through the woods fighting goblins one minute then find a cave and be fighting a Minotaur the next. The combat is satisfying, each hit feels great to land and when you knock a Cyclops on its arse after a big swing of your greatsword, you get a nice rush, not to mention if you stagger them, you can grab their legs and push or pull to topple them in a direction you chose. As for the no 'New Game' button, yeah its a bit weird, it was in the first game but, when they implement it don't expect multiple save files, that's just not what was intended for this game.