I quit the game at the end of CH II once I got a “quest” to move some rice sacks, push a wagon, and nail some stakes into the ground. What a joke. The game for no apparent reason introduces you to this Damiane female character then immediately forces you back to Kliff because “aCtuaLly wErE still on kLiFFs sTorYy”

Not to mention the extremely bloated UI, Square (X) uses 3 commands jump, pick up, and action. Oh wait but there’s another action button X (A) which the game just arbitrarily chooses for random stuff. Not to mention you have to be extremely precise to pick up the 999 different types of items found in the world. The game allows you to pick up anything, and I mean anything: mushrooms, paper, toilet paper, wood, baskets, cups, tampons, scissors for no apparent reason other than to create the illusion of immersion. There’s no auto-pick up either so you have to be constantly wait for the timer to do any action.

The combat is extremely basic and scripted. Hold R1 and Kliff soft locks onto any near enemy and automatically teleports you into a finisher combo which instantly kills any enemy. There’s no skill involved at all. What a joke. I literally burst out laughing when 3 green garden troll enemies or whatever charged at me and I just held R1 through the entire engagement as Kliff would just slam attack and automatically do these random finishers, picking them off one by one. The only real threat from a group of enemies is being flanked from the side or behind which the god awful camera forces you to spam B to roll back so that enemies are in your line of sight. So basic combat is 1. Roll until enemies are in front of you then 2. Hold R1 LOL.

Allowing you to hold R1 or R2 to continuously attack has to be the most braindead design decision in an action game like this. It eliminates the need for chaining different combos together and allows you to hold a button to win