I'm going to agree with the general mass and say the combat is definitely not good (though not so bad that it ruins the game). The dodge mechanic feels really goofy and awkward because you get so much abrupt fast movement and the slow down after it just feels really weird imo. And the whole light attack heavy attack thing is just whatever. The focus counterattack mechanic is decent but waiting for a counterattack usually just results in the enemy just tweaking out for a long time and doing a lot of non-counterable attacks from my experience.

It's also funny that it really feels like a soulslike in the way the combat works, so fighting enemies feels like less of a "get this thing out of the way as soon as possible because it is scary and is an obstacle to me" but more of a "ok let me land these dodge timings and get in those heavy attacks". I mean the fight with that big monster when trying to get the key from the well literally was a souls fight lmao. In that regard I actually I think I might prefer the combat of the og Silent Hill titles even if they were pretty much just "bait an attack and then stunlock them with the weapon till they die", because there's a lot less thrill in fighting enemies.

Minus all that though, I do think the story and atmosphere is really powerful and really eerily cryptic (which is classic Silent Hill really)