From the moment I started playing I was into it. The world sucks you in immediatly and you quickly learn that you're no hero that can dispatch foes with ease and you actually have to TRAIN and work at combat and archery or stealing or whatever you want to survive in the world. The immersion is great and you feel you're living the life of Henry and you can go do whatever you want once the "tutorial" is over. It's very fun. I personally learned some thieving skills and went to towns and robbed stores and rich peoples houses, pick-pocketed travelers and townsfolk, did a bit of hunting and sold the skins and meats to taverns. Whatever you fancy go and do. I pretty much ignored the main quest for most of my time and I found that it's very easy to become pretty overleveled when do you decide to go back to the main quest after all the other stuff you get into to. The main issue I have with the game is actually the combat. For starters the lock-on mechanic is just awful and feels very restrictive in anything other than a 1v1 duel, which don't happen often. This is made worse by the fact that the Ai, regardless of who they are, are all master combatants and will perfectly block and dodge and "master strike"(a mechanic that kills the flow of combat, imo)all of your swings no matter if you attack from opposite directions of their defense. This can be done by every single enemy I've ever fought be it a well-trained knight who makes a living dueling people, or some random thug in cloth armor wielding a axe meant for cutting wood. It's hard to feel like a accomplished swordsman when every peasant and their elderly grandma fights with the tenacity and skill of a warlord. Aside from the combat and how unoptimized it feels, everything else is pretty good. Didn't run into any game breaking bugs though the bugs are there, and some bigger towns like Sasau have some terrible FPS drops but overall the game ran good for me, and I'm on a older PC. Would recommend getting on sale.
