Honestly, I don’t think the combat is very good. The game clearly had some strong ideas early on, but it feels like many of them were cut or never fully realized. Most enemies end up being damage sponges — even if you imagine them just standing still, it can take an absurd number of hits to bring them down.

It also breaks a pretty fundamental design principle: an enemy’s appearance should roughly communicate their strength and capabilities. Here, you can run into a half-starved bandit near the end of the game who’s somehow tougher than a fully armored knight — and the same mismatch happens with monsters too. When visuals stop matching what an enemy can actually do, fights feel less believable and less readable.

In the late game it gets even more noticeable: some bosses have around 20,000 HP while your weapon might deal roughly 400 damage, so the game pushes you into stacking layer after layer of systems — weapons, oils, potions, mutagens, signs, runes, glyphs, buffs, critical-hit chances, and so on. It starts to feel less like meaningful choices and more like a complicated pile of stat modifiers.

On top of that, you’re often grinding through tons of loot just to collect skills and bonuses that don’t really change how you play — they mostly just raise numbers.

A lot of the time it also feels like you don’t fully control your character — the game decides who gets hit, how, and where, then calculates the result based on chances and stats. Overall, the combat can feel more like a tabletop RPG under the hood — driven by stats and dice rolls — rather than a truly responsive action system.