The visuals are commendable overall, complemented by well-executed Japanese voice acting. Certain aspects of the main storyline proved engaging. However, the game falters significantly in several key areas.

The conclusion is notably underwhelming. Combat mechanics lack polish, and the gameplay mechanics are not sufficiently refined. The progression system lacks depth, and the four distinct stances fail to provide meaningful gameplay variation. The world design feels derivative and sparse, while side missions and the overall gameplay loop quickly become monotonous. Each hour of play feels disproportionately lengthy, ultimately detracting from the overall experience.

Given these shortcomings, I'm relieved not to have purchased a PlayStation solely for this title. There exist more compelling samurai-themed games, such as Way of the Samurai and Spirit of Sanda, which offer superior experiences.

It's a good game, combat gets better the more you play and it's not hard hence you really feel like a badass (better then in AC with shorter animations, hence greater flow). Story is good, wish you could skip some/most of the cutsceens though but haven't found a way. The visuals good as well.

It's the AC/Far Cry-kinda open world game, that whole gameplay-loop. Going from checkmark to checkmark gets a bit tedious/boring but the combat helps greatly here. However all these games needs to focus more about the journey between locations and make it fresh/fun and not just about wasting time, Dragons Dogma/Elden Ring but better should be the goal. I really miss random duels in the world, and so far not a single ninja encounter :/

If this game would have been released way earlier on PC i would have been more impressed overall, its not bad but it's not that masterpiece i was hoping for still good but boring/a bit of bad. I did have technical issues and was unable to launch the game at first had to remove the splash_pc-file in order to get to the menu. After that no CTDs or other issues (except xbox controller sometimes show ? buttons instead of the proper ones), the fov slider feels a bit limited. After new nvidia driver game crashed the whole computer, had to turn off framegeneration this time in order to be able to play it. Then they released their own patch and now it started to crash ingame... hmmm.

Played some more and it dosen't get that much better, highlights are the duels a ton of fun just wish the game had more of them. The lackluster stealth and the AI-ruins it a bit. Still worth to pick it up on sale.

Freezes and chrashes, longest ive played is a hour and a half without issues

Poor PC port, game gets very laggy and stuttery after like 30 minutes of playing, even with settings turned down. For reference Cyberpunk 2077 with ray tracing runs way better than this game on my computer. Tried many different things after searching online but nothing fixes it.

For the love of god patch the standoff bug. One of the coolest mechanics in the game and it doesnt even work half of the time.

Issues currently with both AMD drivers and Frame Generation. Just a warning for others. I'll happily be flipping to a positive recommendation once its fixed.

It's a great port, except for the fact that there is a clear memory leak issue with the game dropping my frames from an average of 130 to 50 after random playtime, which is resolved by restarting the game. You would think memory leak issues like this would be fixed and easily caught in testing in 2024.

No idea how this happened; once fixed, I'll change the review to positive.

Love this game. Playing on lethal has been a great time. I'll likely 100% the campaign. This dislike is purely for the PSN requirement. Being locked out of a portion of the game I paid for is real bad. If Helldivers can be rid of it, so can this game. Suck it Sony!

Fun until the memory leak kicks in. The devs still haven't fixed it and it's been known since launch.

I get about an hour of perfectly functional gameplay before framerates plummet, game stutters, load times increase, and menu navigation lags to hell and back.

Fix the memory leak and the game will be perfect. Also, PC load times are longer than playstation's before the memory leak does anything. Maybe you could fix that while you're at it.

The more I play these modern PS games, the more it is absolutely shocking to me how much people in general just throw around the word ''masterpiece'' so carelessly, and have incredibly low standards and are so, so easily pleased.

On top of that, what is further shocking, is how pretty much all of the releases on PC so far seem to be built upon the lazy, bland and excruciatingly uninteresting Ubisoft formula: huge, empty, dull open worlds with the same kind of combat + an exageration of icons on the map to be cleared with your pet companion. Go here, clear. Go there, clear, next > repeat mindnumbingly until you get your 100% fix for grinding through the most tedious of contents.
This decades-old formula doesn't get me hooked at all, and I'd rather watch paint dry, honestly.

Horizon Zero Dawn, Forbidden West, Days Gone, Spider-Man Remastered, they're all the absolute same game under a different (granted) pretty skin.
That's what you get: beautiful looking places with uninspired storytelling, that have been told a thousand times and no ounce of substance, having you go from A to B from B to C to A clearing icons upon icons repetitively on a unnecessarily huge map. For what?

Gigantic maps were still cool 17 years ago when showcasing the new capabilities of hardware.
You can stop, it's 2024. By now we know they're consistently empty and never effectively justify their size just because you copy + pasted the same boring activities all over it numerous times.

Next time I keep hearing for years on end how a game is an ''absolute masterpiece'', I better not buy into the delusional hype and just skip it. Lesson learned. Took me a few titles.

Doing laundry is more fun than this.