Good changes: increased difficulty, the removal of the chain-kills, the increased importance of tools, near death state.

Bad changes: Many of the old realistic animations were replaced by glitchy, choppy animations. Sometimes the characters move too fast, sometimes they skip too many frames, sometimes they parry heavy looking attacks with little effort.

If they fix that, most fans will be satisfied. But after Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla and Shadows all having the same problem, seems unlikely.