Do I enjoy aspects of this game? Yes. It's cool and has historical accuracy.
But the combat is utter ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. A farmer armed with a club can parry like a knight. Everyone is able to parry and dodge, and the combo mechanic is useless. It's ridiculous.

It turns out, I wouldn't survive for long in the middle ages.

I really wanted to continue playing this as the graphics, the world,the story and realism are top notch, but DEAR GOD! is the combat is just abysmal, you can't fight more than one enemy at a time even full plate that means nothing to them if you are full plated, because guess what, when you take damage you lose health and stamina which means no attacking or dodging, so you are forced to use archery and stay on horse most of the time or stealth killing and worst of all is auto locking is awful, combos are useless and pointless and yeah master strikes are no fun but they're a necessity to survive fights with more than 1 person since the camera lock is so bad and you will rage a lot of the combat system.

Again, I really wanted to enjoy this but I cannot for the life of me enjoy the combat and how awful the aiming mechanic as i cannot block or evade even if I press the right direction, I almost smashed my keyboard because of the frustration, but I guess it was fun for 8$ or 6$ and imo though I actually recommend the second game than the first but I rather wait for more info on improving the combat system instead of pre order it in Day 1.