It looks great, but I honestly haven't the foggiest idea how it plays because, after spending some time trying to get through a simple tutorial with paired Joy-Cons, it ran me into a specific section that I couldn't actually pass without switching to the keyboard, at which point I gave up. This would have been less of an annoyance had I not just spent a while trying, and failing, to get the game to recognise the Joy-Cons as a single controller. Instead I was forced to start navigating menus using only one (L), and after working my way, very clunkily - due to some questionable inputs that are wholly unrelated to the controllers themselves, according to several calibration tools, including Steam - to said tutorial it randomly stopped allowing me to use the half-controller it had had me use thus far and demanded that I pick up the other half instead. Not "as well" - instead. I might have forgiven the lack of full Joy-Con support for a small indie game trying to find a niche in the shadow of officially-sanctioned behemoths in the same genre, but I'd still expect partial support for a single Joy-Con to be consistent. That it switched between the menu and the tutorial, then outright abandoned mid-tutorial for no apparent reason, is simply not good enough. I like the aesthetic and want to like the game, but it's literally unplayable right now. At 1/20th the price of something like Mario Strikers it still manages to seem like a bit of a rip-off, and that's a shame because I suspect I'll still enjoy it a little later when I can be bothered to dig out a more conventional PC controller but GOG are so backwards that this review won't be able to be edited to reflect that possible fact. Still, I'll stick by the rating, because it's such a poor first impression that it has to be recognised.
This game is close to being a masterpiece. The world is believable, the quests are wonderfully varied, and the gameplay can be excellent. However, certain circumstances make the controls utterly useless - like riding a horse, the game doesn't look nearly as good as it should given te hardware demands, and the world isn't anywhere near as open as it wants you to think it is. Most importantly, negative multi-GPU scaling is inexcusable. The superb story, characters and quests are enough to make this a very good game, but it could have been so much better.
