You'll catch on and it all becomes a bit too easy tbh.

I've got to admit I'm not loving my time with this. There's enough I like about to keep me playing but I'm considering dropping it down to easy for a push through the story.

The combat is good, but I don't enjoy it as much as certain other games that most would argue had worse fight systems - Shadow of Mordor and Mad Max being the prime examples. They're far more basic but I find their rhythm more fun to the point where I'd instigate skirmishes just dispatch groups of enemies in those games, whereas in this I tend to either hide or run from unnecessary engagements.

Perhaps it's doing nothing wrong and it just doesn't fit into whatever requirements I have for open world games, but I'm just not really feeling it. I assume I've barely scratched the surface too, as I've only just

Moot_Geeza wrote:

I've got to admit I'm not loving my time with this. There's enough I like about to keep me playing but I'm considering dropping it down to easy for a push through the story. The combat is good, but I don't enjoy it as much as certain other games that most would argue had worse fight systems - Shadow of Mordor and Mad Max being the prime examples. They're far more basic but I find their rhythm more fun to the point where I'd instigate skirmishes just dispatch groups of enemies in those games, whereas in this I tend to either hide or run from unnecessary engagements. Perhaps it's doing nothing wrong and it just doesn't fit into whatever requirements I have for open world games, but I'm just not really feeling it. I assume I've barely scratched the surface too, as I've only just

Spoiler:

rescued the blacksmith (after an annoying sneaking/observing mission)

You are early in the game, but the basic mechanics aren't going to change that much. Granted there are a load of moves/abilities to learn to make things feel varied.

The main campaign doesn't overstay its welcome. I found I was getting a little bored so I stuck to the main quest and got it done quicker than I thought I would. Just stick to that main quest and ignore the side stuff and it won't take too long. 

Have since started playing again for the co-op stuff, but I do really enjoy the combat in this game, it's the thing that kept me going on my solo playthrough.

Yeah, the game has fast travel. Not sure when it activates though. Can't remember.

Makes going from quest to quest very quick indeed.

But you can't necessarily do it if midway through a quest

Yep, fast travel is there from the off. You can't fast travel to the actual missions, but you can fast travel to most other places by pressing triangle on a location on the map. I'm not sure I would have found that myself, sinple as it sounds, given that I've had no desire to go anywhere off piste (thus far).

The cinematic standoffs in this are outrageously good. I've dropped the difficulty down to easy and once I come to terms with the fact that it's gone from 'surprisingly tricky' to 'absolute pushover' I reckon I'll be fine to push on.

Managed to find my mojo with this yesterday, put maybe 2hrs in and have now
Fast travel FTW.

Got this yesterday and really impressed with it on PS5. Nice audio and looks great.

However, the camera. It has a weird hybrid auto lock on, auto rotate action. So I can be fighting someone, backing off and the camera will swing around so I can no longer see who I'm fighting.

I hate auto rotating cameras and appreciate the option to be able to turn it off in Nioh 2, for example.

And I'm all for games with no lock on but no lock on and auto rotating camera? Who thought that was a good idea?

Rest of the game seems awesome.

I honestly found this game hit it's stride from act 2 (if you're treating each part of the island as an act). I fid a lot of grind on part one to clear all of the side quests, so my armour and weapons and charms were at a good state. After this I prioretised just the main story and character tales and picked up side quests only as I cane to them.

I think this game (like Second Son) is at its best when you're involved with the story. The busy work is its weakest part.

Well this was the last PS4 game to be developed before the actual release of the PS5. And whilst many games like GT7 are being released as cross gen titles, Ghost was the last true PS4 game before the advent of next gen.

Canberra is fine

Dreadful.

You do your own camera so there's only yourself to blame.

It’s a feature to simulate the difficulties of close quarter fighting!