With all the media hype and a long period of marketing, who can blames us for been excited about this game?...Sadly, once again, a AAA game is released with all its bugs and glitches, again...The game is bad: Voice recording DO NOT match characters lips movements, I have to wait up to 9 seconds after the voices finished for characters lips to stop moving and their corresponding body language! I have seen characters riding invisible horses, characters riding with their horses deep into the soil/road, sometimes I can only see their heads moving through the soil, and sometimes they are floating in the air! Characters response to movement/actions lag so much, it is so frustrating! Sometimes npc go through each other as if they have no body...and sometimes npc get stuck into a loop of a mad``dancing`` because the game ``pathing`` is just bad! npc walking and bumping into a player stationary character and getting `upset`...again ``pathing`` problem. These are just the technical issues, as there are many `game-play` issues that are as bad: You can only fast travel when you are not on a horse! Really??? Crafting items/gear has no mention that you need a Blacksmith of a SPECIFIC level until you start the converstation with the Blacksmith...No mention that `amateur` Blacksmith can degrade your weapon/gear. Too many cut-scenes with actions that your character can do under your own control. With a player character Lev5, I have not seen any improvements in character performance...It is as if all those points I earned with leveling are of little importance. As I said, my character reached only Lev5 and this review is written based on that experience. So far, the game has quashed a lot of my enthusiasm for this game.
I have been playing games since 1995 and have seen all kinds of attempts to merge different types of gameplay, most of them failing at different levels and/or with different intensity...This game does NOTHING for me but frustrates me with every battle! Character build is still confusing to me that I just stopped bothering with it. The looting system is pointless. This game tries to be something different so hard that is just painful! Yes, I read the other reviews but I thought: `it can`t be that bad?`...I should have taken Faenrir review seriously! It is a mess! There might be some minority who are into B&D, S&M and other weird stuff that like this game...Good for them! For a player like me, this game should be returned back to developers with a note: TRY AGAIN!...but please, this time stay sober!
Bad plot, brainless story, bad controls, shoot-for-the-sake-of-shooting, No intuitive gameplay-Getting stuck for game direction is just a bad luck...What were game devs thinking when they were making this game? Were they thinking at all? Aaaaarrrggghhhh....You want frustration, you get this game...Enjoy!
