I've tried several times to play with 2 friends to no avail, every 10-15mins the game will disconnect one of us or the 3 of us simultaneously. Playing a campaign this way is too much hassle so we're waiting on a steam sale to try that platform although we suspect this has something to do with the game, since all 3 of us have strong gaming PCs but we had to lower almost all graphical options to the lowest settings to avoid frequent crashes. We'll try and if not we'll just refund it there. Even with those graphical changes, the game sometimes freezes our PCs if we switch to another app (Ex, we quickly open discord) or has weird bugs like our mouse pointer appearing, making us need to minimize and reopen the game for it to dissappear. The game is great for single-player (still crashes frequently without the graphical "optimization", but can be stabilized running it in potato settings) but it is poorly optimized and the multiplayer dependability is not there, at all. Since we're central-american and the nearest GOG is in Canada (as far as I can tell googling), I'll update this review by 2025 letting you know if maybe being connected to an unstable server was causing everything including the crashes, could be because even when I played singleplayer I still had the online availability open, meaning other random players could've connected.
Beautiful cinematic game with interesting visuals, a very unique audio and storytelling, I saw all of that in the trailers plus very dynamic fights so I was immediately invested. Unfortuately, I agree with the main criticisms most people have: The fights look very pretty and dynamic, but when playing you'll notice that they're repetitive because the combat system is too simplistic, just dodge and stun-lock your enemies, rinse and repeat, no challenge whatsoever, no way to improve, no different enemies or attack patterns, even the bosses are boring. This was a huge dissappointment as this was the aspect I was looking forward to the most. The game is also horribly optimized, I have a very modern and powerful setup but I still had to run the game on high instead of very high, and then I noticed some hickups so I lowered it to medium, then to low... And they still happened so I lowered everything to the minimum only to discover that in certain parts of the game there will always be lag, with a game so visually intense having things blur or freeze every once in a while is dizzing, these issues happen less with the lowest graphics so I went with those which is a shame because I wasn't able to enjoy the strongest part of the game: The visuals/sfx. Related to optimization I have to speak about the general lack of polish, for example near many walls or obstables you can move the camera in such a way that you see through the wall and can see what's below or ahead, things like that really break the immersion which is the second best thing this game has going for it. Finally, my personal opinion. The game is constantly changing, you're supposed to be always lost, this led to half of my playthough being me looking around, stressed because I didn't look at a torch in a certain direction so a path would open or similar things, I know this is part of the puzzle and narrative aspects but I don't think it translates well into gameplay. The game is also too short for the price.
