First I will start by saying that I am a female in my mid 40's with several kids. I've never said that in a review but I think it could be relevant due to the nature of some of my views in the current climate. The game play is very easy. I prefer melee game play and all I did with this game was spam the attack button while moving and jumping. I'm glad it was easy because this game just got me down so much & I just wanted to get it over with. There is no shortage of weapons and armour. You pick them up everywhere. You end up having to dump most of it as you are constantly over encumbered. Lots of customization options that I didn't even bother with. I ended up using the one weapon I picked up at the start and just kept upgrading the damage. It got to the stage that I was annoyed at getting loot and I am a bit of a loot obsessive - in Fallout I picked up every burnt book & sold them. The narrative is nothing spectacular. The NPC's and side quests were so annoying. The quests were all: you need a thing, you need to go to someone to get that thing, that someone won't give you the thing until you get them a thing, that next thing won't give you the thing until you do something from them, and so on. I ended up cutting off dialogue and not caring about what dialogue choices I made. The NPC's weren't interesting and I wished I could have killed most of them. Not open world. All the areas are linear and there is nothing to explore or discover off the path, except for maybe a loot chest. I've played my fair share of buggy and unfinished games that haven't annoyed me as much as this game. What angered me most about this game? The obvious social justice issues that were rammed in my face with nearly every NPC interaction. The SJW themes were thrown into everything. All the heroes and smart people were women. The evil, incompetent and dumb people were all men. Just make a game, stop telling me how to live my life. I need to go back to Witcher 2 to cleanse myself of this.
