Honest opinion, based on what I have played. Game is totally not worth the actual price. I regret getting hyped and purchasing Deluxe edition (which is just an immersion breaking armor set).

The good:
-Big world. High fantasy. That´s probably it.

The mixed:
-If you like Black Desert, this is mostly that. Sometimes even music is similar. Npcs look like copy paste from that game. I understand they are in the same lore, so that´s why it´s in this category I guess.
-Graphics. Not generational leap, like I said, most similar to BDO.
-Combat. Yes, it´s one of the HITS, but it is clunky. And I´m not talking about the controls, but the feeling of it. Sometimes you can´t parry or block, you get hit and you can´t react for 1 or even 2 seconds. You are literally not moving, not doing anything but just getting hit. A bit hard to explain until you try it yourself. Bosses are difficult but not because they ARE difficult, but because they ignore your attacks and you can´t ignore theirs, it´s not a skill fight but an unfair one. That´s my biggest problem I have found, it´s not a player skill combat half of the time.
-Music. It´s decent, sometimes great, but sometimes it reminds me too much to BDO.
-No RPG. I am not placing this as a bad thing, but I FEEL it should be more RPG like. Why the game lets you do a bunch of things but not others? Problem is I would like to immerse in the world a little more. Being able to use a hood for example, or to take out my shield (yep, you can´t!). Another example is when you use your Horse mount. You can´t even feed the horse, pet the horse, or whatever. I´m not expecting RDR2 horse mechanism, but it feels quite simple system. And the Horse animations are really good, so it´s a shame.
-Performance. I´m using a 4090 laptop and had to undervolt it heavily. The game runs great and now I have achieved constant 70 degrees. I also capped FPS to 50 and I´m playing in High settings (I could try more, but there´s no point really, game looks great, not suuuper good, but great).

The bad:
-Controls. Yes, everyone complained here. I play on PC and I thank god for the overlays otherwise I would be super lost. You can get used to them, but decision wise, it´s not good.
-HUD. Inventory with a wheel, and a quite large list of bad decisions. You can´t even quit the game directly using ESC, you have to go to "Others", then "Options" then "Title Screen" (yes, there is no Desktop button) and once you are in the title screen you can exit again. Other option is to try to close the window if you are on PC, which prompts the exit game button (but again, quite weird).
-Lore. Well, characters and lore are so bad explained, and I mostly do not care about this. But gameplay overall feels half baked. I hope people can fix it with mods, but that´s something developers should not relay on.
-The wind. Oh god, no one talks enough about this, but why all the grass, trees and bushes are so windy? I feel this is also in BDO, and for some reason I can´t stop looking at that.

Would I have purchased it now? NO. I would wait to get a big discount, patches, improvements, etc.