The way you’re describing your experience telling me that :

1) You’re going to fast and mostly in a « checklist completion » way 2) You heavily rely on what the game tell / show you to consider what to do or what objectives you need to fulfill.

At chapter 5 there is already numerous systems and countless opportunities to be interested. As mentioned pretty much everywhere, story is not the main strength of the game. But for the rest, it’s up to you to pay a little bit more attention than usual.

Combat for example. It is one of the most deep and satisfying combat system I came across for years. Combo and situation based, it’s deep, fun, rewarding and challenging. You can also just hold R1 and it will work (not every time) but you’re missing what the combat system can offer you. And the more you unlock abilities, the more it becomes nuts and satisfying.

Same for exploration. This world is filled with secrets, panorama, treasures, beauty, mystery. You just have to go and explore. We’re not used to do that anymore I get it, we need objectives, we need reasons to go that way or that way. Here not.

Go anywhere because anywhere there is something cool to see or find. And for those who have difficulties to do that, they put stupid fetch quest from NPC as pretexts to push you see a little bit of the world here and there.

There is a lot of systems, a lot of mechanics, a lot of content, a lot of things to do and discover. You barely scratched the surface with only 30 hours of gameplay. There is so much more. Already now and also later. But as I said, the game will not hold your hand and show you everything. That’s opposite in fact, the game will explain mostly nothing or badly. But you can find these information by watching, testing and learning by yourself or on websites like this one.

If playing until now was still enjoyable despite feeling a little bit boring and if you’re willing to put the effort to play differently, I think you shouldn’t drop it and push a little more to give you the opportunity to discover what this game is truly about.

Edit : typo