This game has most of what you want in an action rpg. It is fun to play, and that's what I care about most. The "tapesty of fate" and being the "fateless one" is a little bit cringe, but I can still dig it. The combat is fun for me, I enjoy two handed weapons and charging the attacks up, but I also enjoyed playing a battlemage where the classic spinny staff combat with strikes being punctuated by elemental ranged blasts, feels and looks awesome. I did not get into the stealthy gameplay at all, but it is yet another avenue for me to explore at some point. The graphics aren't amazing, but the style is cohesive throughout the world and reminds me of modern WoW but sharper. It's pretty enough for me and the effects of the spells and combat are well done. Seems well optimized as well, as I have played this on multiple different systems, from a higher end desktop gaming rig comboing an 5700X3D with a 7900XT, to a laptop with a 1660 and an i5 cpu, and it felt smooth on both machines with reasonably high settings, using 1080p 60hz on the laptop and 2k 144hz on the desktop. I've tried playing with mouse+keyboard and an Xbox controller with PC. You can switch between the two control schemes on the fly, seemlessly. The default mappings are fine and I didn't feel the need to change anything. Something that bothers me a bit is the fact that the shield is hidden, and only comes out when you press the block button. I was really hoping to at least have the shield stay on my back at all times or be able to toggle that, but I think they made it this way to maintain the action based, arcadey feel for combat, I dunno, that's just my view. I really wanted to be able to play that classic sword and board build but it's just not really scratching that itch for me. Overall this is a 9/10 game for me, it's fun and keeps me wanting to play it.
