This game was an amazing experience the whole way through, but has some major flaws. Firstly the pros: - Utterly beautiful game. - Fantastic soundtrack, especially Peshek's theme. - Great minigames such as alchemy and lockpicking or pickpocketing. - Great combat that gives you a forward stabbing motion and 6 directions to strike from. Cons: - Buggy. often so much so that the game crashes, freezes, or causes you to get stuck. - The developers included a feature wherein you can only save using a potion, quitting the game, or during certain events. This does not add immersion, it robs us of playtime. If you make one mistake during these large battles where you can't save, expect to redo hours of work just to fix it. Remove it. - During combat, you automatically lock on to a target and there is no way to toggle that off or switch targets. This makes it extremely easy for enemies to swarm you and attack you and overcomplicates combat. Remove it. - There needs to be more recognition of Henry's efforts and he needs more ability to influence things. - The ending is one of the most dissapointing and disgustingly insulting things a game has ever done to me. Your main quest the entire game is to seek revenge on Markvart Von Aulitz for killing your family and destroying your home (this is in the trailer, so I am not spoiling this) and to find your father's sword. Neither of this happens. The game ends on a cliff hanger for the second game where the player is going into the final cutscene expecting like 20-30 more hours of content. Imageine there are 6 acts in the game. This ends in Act 4 or 5. Its like if the Last of Us Part 1 ended after Ellie and Joel killed the cannibals, cutting out the final stages. No story driven game should do this ever. The sequel should have told a completely new story of its own either continuing Henry's life and adventures or finding a new character, region, and time period. I highly recommend playing this, but go on expecting a shitty ending.
The game is broken. - It took 6 hours to download. That is unacceptable. I have am amazing internet connection. - The sounds are out of tune and constantly go mute, - The entire intro to the game is missing and it immediately sends me to the prison cell in Riven AFTER the death of that NPC. - Regular movements of objects are removed and instead it fast forwards everything. Either fix this game and put it back to its original intended state or give me a damn refund.
