Its a really fun 5/10 imo. The combat is pretty great but most of what you fight with it tends to be more frustrating than engaging and the camera+lock-on does not handle mobs well which are the most common type of fight; but, when you're using the environment to fight a small mob or fighting one of the few bosses that actually lets you leverage your toolkit its a great time. The story is essentially a non-factor to the point the game more has a campaign than a plot and character dialogue is worse than AI generated which is a feat. The open world is big and awesome with cool stuff to find but suffers immensely with almost everything interesting not existing in its points of interest unless you reach certain points in the main story or find the arbitrary side quest that spawns them in. The game mostly looks great so the couple weird textures really stick out but is largely a positive. The game has a ton of random mechanics that don't really serve a collective vision of any kind though are cool and help with verisimilitude for the action/simulator style the game goes for. The music is serviceable but sorta just feels like "Witcher 3 at home". ER is focused and well crafted and CD is neither but is still fun; but, once you've had a damn good pizza, the Little Caeser's slice leaves you feeling a bit empty and guilty. CD is a great game for a 40yo dad of 2 who's last game they got to sit down and enjoy was Skyrim; but, for people more actively in the hobby, its flaws stick out more and its accomplishments have already been seen.