Full disclaimer, I pre-ordered this game and finished my first playthrough with all side missions in sept 2022. I also play on a RTX 3070ti so I don't know how performances are on more reasonable rigs. Most bugs have been fixed and the experience is 90% smooth. Which means that yes there is still 10% of your experience that will be janky. The game is very pretty, colourful and fun when it clicks. Which relies a lot on your tolerance levels towards its jankyness and lack of meaningful player choice in a rpg game. The story is the game strongest point, it's well made with great characters and has a bit of originality. It's so good that every time I would come back to this game, I couldn't help but feel that I would enjoy it more as a novel. The fight gameplay is ok. Nothing bad, nothing great. It gets boring when fighting the tanky mini-boss type ennemies. I was doing a pure pistol and stealth build and those ennemies just meant that I'd be spending the next 10 minutes running in circles, spamming health regens and shooting half my ammo or hiden on a roof doing the same thing for the ones that can't climb. And speaking of ammo, why can't I restock them completely at any gun shop? Why do I have to go through 5 dirrent and very far appart shops to top off my pistols? That was my main gripe in between quests. When you're on a stroll enjoying powering through side quests this would bring a hard stop for 20 minutes in the gameplay experience. Hunting down ammo. Side quests are really fun and I highly recommend doing them all before finishing the game since just like me you might not want to play anymore after the grand finale in the story. Hopefully, you picked the right ending for you to feel some sort of satisfaction to your fate.
