This game is riddled with some of the worst design choices i have ever seen in a game. Archery is stupid. The draw time and aiming don't make sense. I've actually fired a bow in real life. Both recurve and longbow. Horses. Again, something I have real world experience with. I can safely say, without reservations, that horses can run through a bush. For some unfathomable reason the devs put collision on everything. Small row of bushes, nah it has the collion box of a castle wall. good luck navigating the map if you leave the road. Poorly implemented mechanics all over the place. Lockpicking, ingame economy, reputation, crime, and training. all of them have glaringly obvious problems. And last but not least, the combat. Jeez, where to even begin?! I see what they were trying to do with the system. Have a real-ish combat system instead of hack-n-slash. Commendable. But here's the problem. The combat doesn't even follow the rules they explain in the tutorial. And the non-existent balance makes the game unberable. I'll give an example: This is a fight that you can't avoid, as it's part of the main story. There's plenty of room to fight (for once) but the enemy you are fighting is wildly unbalanced. I spent three hours trying different things to win the fight. One particularly anoying thing that happened was i tried riding around the enemy on horse back and shooting the enemy in the face with wounding arrows. Six shots in the face, one in the neck, and multiple shots to the body. The guy was still running around like nothing happened. I jumped off the horse thinking that i should be able to finish him off with a couple good hits. Nope. After being shot in the face neck and body repeatedly, he still wouldn't die after multiple solid hits from my weapon. He then perfect blocked me mid combo and killed be with a chained combo attack of his own. That attack was the only time he hit me. This game could have been good. But it's not.
