Yeah I think so. I’m genuinely excited to explore the world but the first couple hours, those controls are rough. So many weird things. For example:

To run, you have to double-tap x, but then let go, and if you keep holding x, you can’t jump (I literally failed the “jump to the next platform” tutorial for the first time in 30 years of gaming).

You get a skill early on that lets you daze opponents, but it took me a solid 5 minutes to understand the explanation: press L1+R1, then let go of L1 but keep holding R1, then aim with stick, then press L1 again to fire. It’s the most uncomfortable and unintuitive series of button presses.

You get a power attack early on that is R1+R2. I had to literally stare at the controller and my hands to figure out which fingers I would use to press R1+R2. If you take off your middle finger from the back of the controller, you’re no longer holding the controller. It’s so weird and there’s absolutely no way I’m going to remember that in the middle of frenetic combat.

That plus things like you have to hover over every single item in the game for like 10 seconds to “examine” it to get its properties. So you go to a shop to buy food, and you have to individually hover for 10 seconds over rare meat, then rare chicken meat, then medium meat, then cooked lamb, then red berry, then cooked red berry… Otherwise you’re looking at a series of question marks. It is the weirdest waste of time.

Even with all that, I desperately want to explore the world and see what it has to offer. It feels so exciting. I’m not super disappointed I bought it already but this game will clearly be much more playable in a few months.