The title says it. This game is painfully average at best, but if you ever go on the reddit, or check out reviews people give it huge praise, but remember the game was hot trash at launch, and even now on its final release is just an average game with potential to be good. The gameplay is so slow, if you have ever played other open world rpgs you will notice how slow this game plays. For example travel itself is very slow, and is just a way for the developers to pad gameplay hours with artifical barriers like rivers and bushes. Picking up items takes forever because your character has to bend over and pick them up with this slow animation everytime, and yes sometimes you will put your weapon away and then pick up an item. Because for some reason the character you play as, Henry, can't pick things up with his open hand. Combat is also super slow, playing in hardcore mode, or the game in regular mode, you will notice that you are actively punished for trying to be aggressive. That would be fine, but the punishment is not to a reasonable degree. You can lose a whole fight because you got countered by your openent one time. So sometimes I literally stand there doing nothing waiting for my openent to attack me just so I can attack him. I can literally stand there looking at some guy for 20-30 seconds before they even swing. Combos suck because you often get countered halfway through the combo and never get to see the payoff. They made a save system that would be common and fine in a survival horror game, specific locations/item necessary to save, but this is an open world RPG. On launch saving was even worse. Now this may seem like I didn't like the game. I did enjoy, I have all but 5 achievements on Xbox. This review is intended to for people who want an honest review, and not some fanboy who acts like this game was the next big thing. It isn't, and it shouldn't be until the major flaws get fixed.
