This game is bad, I miss the katana mechanic from first game. Every time I saw a fighting arena I rolled my eyes thinging not again, this is boring. You can throw a horde of enemies against me but when the enemies just spawn from thin air behide You its very annoying.
I had such hopes for this game, I am very disapointed.

NOTE: Bought game on -90% sale

Gameplay wise and style wise the game does hit the mark of what SW is supposed to be but it feels like the odd one out of the 3. You should definitely play the first one over this if you haven't played that already. I was one of the people who actually liked the looter shooter aspect of the second one.

The second game had more weapon variety than this one and the weapons in this one are also a little bit weirder looking much like the enemies. Now the enemies are supposed to be demons and they have always been sort of funky looking for that reason but in this one I feel like they took it up a notch. Not really a fan of those annoying accordion-type enemies and the moles who keep disappearing and appearing again.

Story wise this game is very small in scope and simple compared to the previous game, not that those stories were super complex or anything but at least they devolved into "we have to go to x to get y" and so forth. And in this game it's just "we have to stop that dragon" and that's basically it.

To counter that the environments are very big and open (mountainous etc.), but you move through them completely linearly. This is not a semi-open world or anything.

I did have a chuckle now and then at some of the humor in this though. The first boss being called "giant c0ck" is basically the level of humor we are talking about here.

What annoys me most is the arena type combat instead of just moving through a bunch of areas with monsters in them or them spawning in from a direction or locations. The whole game is just arena -> platforming -> arena -> platforming for about 6 hours.

The arena style combat is just non stop action without being able to get a breather, or for that matter even being able to sort of see what the hell is going on. The game likes to spawn a whole group of big enemies at once and then there's all sorts of effects flying all over the screen and in your face. And then when you think you are done and then it spawns in yet another group...

For some reason I discovered halfway through the game you can upgrade weapons and your character and that there is a special chi blast move.

Also why are the cinematics so blurry and low fps. I also had some fps inconsistencies throughout the game at 4K, not very minor mind you the minimum I had was 55 and the max was 100... yeah not great but it works. Would be nice if they could at least upgrade FSR 1.0 in this to at least FSR2.2 but preferably FSR3 as well.

Awesome