I had a really hard time deciding to thumb up or down this game. The art is gorgeous, the story is engaging and kept me interested, the characters were fantastic. But there were so. many. bugs.

Here is a list of what I experienced, which forces me to not recommend this:

-Weapon swaps at random. I completely unbound the keys for weapon swapping to make sure I wasn't clicking anything by mistake, it just likes to swap weapons with no warning.

-Falling through world (this one only happened once to be fair)

-When exiting game you will come back in in random locations, sometimes in some you have never even been. You can log back in miles into the fog of war, in a place you have never been anywhere NEAR. In fact, in 24 hours playing this game only two times did it actually load me back where I left off.

-If you are playing in windowed mode and want to tab out, you have to ctrl+esc or alt+tab TWICE to get the game to let go of your controls. Relatedly, if you close the game entirely from windowed mode you have to ctrl+esc one more time as it is still holding your mouse/keyboard hostage.

-There is virtually no ability to climb DOWN. I don't know if this is a bug or a design decision but there are many ways in game to climb up but climbing down is basically looking for things to break your fall on the way to the ground. Only a couple of ladders in the game let me climb back down them the same way I climbed up them.

-Multiple input commands on one key, which leads you to constantly doing the wrong command. Space bar is jump, dodge in every direction, grab, and jump grab. You cannot seperate these in key bindings. You will often watch helplessly as your character does the wrong command sometimes leaping to their death.

-Tons of items in walls or slightly buried in the ground and cannot be interacted with, yet show they can be interacted with.

-Multiple times during the story you get stripped of all your gear and later it gets given back, you then have to spend minutes re-setting up all your equipment and hotkeys cause it just dumps it into your bag haphazardly and doesn't put it back where it was.

-You can be hit or even killed by many enemies through walls. Had it happen many times. And I'm not talking about rocket launchers I mean claws and spit.

-There is no visual indicator for your running stamina. it doesnt use the same stamina bar as your weapon swings, but when it runs out you suddenly slow way down which can lead to you getting caught if you were fleeing enemies.

Around all these many bugs was a great game that I played to the end. But after all these headaches I cannot currently convince myself to play the DLC or the sequel.

I had a really hard time deciding to thumb up or down this game. The art is gorgeous, the story is engaging and kept me interested, the characters were fantastic. But there were so. many. bugs. Here is a list of what I experienced, which forces me to not recommend this: -Weapon swaps at random. I completely unbound the keys for weapon swapping to make sure I wasn't clicking anything by mistake, it just likes to swap weapons with no warning. -Falling through world (this one only happened once to be fair) -When exiting game you will come back in in random locations, sometimes in some you have never even been. You can log back in miles into the fog of war, in a place you have never been anywhere NEAR. In fact, in 24 hours playing this game only two times did it actually load me back where I left off. -If you are playing in windowed mode and want to tab out, you have to ctrl+esc or alt+tab TWICE to get the game to let go of your controls. Relatedly, if you close the game entirely from windowed mode you have to ctrl+esc one more time as it is still holding your mouse/keyboard hostage. -There is virtually no ability to climb DOWN. I don't know if this is a bug or a design decision but there are many ways in game to climb up but climbing down is basically looking for things to break your fall on the way to the ground. Only a couple of ladders in the game let me climb back down them the same way I climbed up them. -Multiple input commands on one key, which leads you to constantly doing the wrong command. Space bar is jump, dodge in every direction, grab, and jump grab. You cannot seperate these in key bindings. You will often watch helplessly as your character does the wrong command sometimes leaping to their death. -Tons of items in walls or slightly buried in the ground and cannot be interacted with, yet show they can be interacted with. -Multiple times during the story you get stripped of all your gear and later it gets given back, you then have to spend minutes re-setting up all your equipment and hotkeys cause it just dumps it into your bag haphazardly and doesn't put it back where it was. -You can be hit or even killed by many enemies through walls. Had it happen many times. And I'm not talking about rocket launchers I mean claws and spit. -There is no visual indicator for your running stamina. it doesnt use the same stamina bar as your weapon swings, but when it runs out you suddenly slow way down which can lead to you getting caught if you were fleeing enemies. Around all these many bugs was a great game that I played to the end. But after all these headaches I cannot currently convince myself to play the DLC or the sequel.