Gameplay is fun and feels like babys first Total War Warhammer or the precursor to what this type of gameplay will become in the now arrived future. It is more fun to focus on the fights on a smallerish scale where you do not command like 2-3 full 20 stack armies at once and you have more time to micromanage. The game is quite slow and has no fast forward button so you have to have some patience. On the technical aspect the game doesnt seem to be able to handle modern graphic cards. The second you tab out of the game or you close it there is a 50/50 that the graphics card cannot switch the mode and the screen stays black and for some reason it likes to lock down the windows key for me and i have to manually untrigger the windows key via osk
The game feels shallow to what it can offer you aside from the missions and it took them quite long to patch QoL features in like changing your hair or have different houses. If you do not like the story then there is not much that can make the game enyjoyable. In my opinion they focues to much at the story with keanu while everything else got a lower priority and you can feels that when you dont do main story missions. Either they should have made this game a linear story without open world like Deus Ex or focus more on the all around package of the open world and pull some resources from the main story. Either would have been fine and made a great game, but now we have a mash of both and the ones takes away from the other and it becomes a "meh with some good parts" game instead of a solid good game throughout.
The game looks good and is pretty and the controls feel clean but can get messy when a lot is happening. The way you play the game varies between boat battles or exploring buldings and empty ships in a point and click style. There is a lot to explore and the fact that you have to use waypoints and your compass to get where you want to be is a big part of the game. It is a good game that is pretty close to games like rebel galaxy. BUT its a bugfest. Sometimes i get the bug where i can sell a object infinite times until i have the 60000 gold the mechant has and sometimes the autosave will not save your inventory. I recommend to save as much as possible so you keep the progress.
