I'm also liking it, it's been the only game I've played for the whole week. The start was kind of rough and the controls still have some issues (it's just weird. Sometimes they feel responsive, other times it feels like I'm having some kind of an input lag despite doing the same action), but overall I'm really enjoying the slow burn of the game. I'm about 40 hours in and I'm still in Hernand (which itself isn't really that surprising considering how big Hernand is) which is the first area of the 5 big areas of the game. Much like Breath of the Wild I'm so enamored by the exploration I keep getting sidetracked and if the rest of the world keeps sidetracking me as much as Hernand does I don't know when I'll finish the main quest (which kind of like in BotW isn't the main focus of the game).

The puzzles are also a breath of fresh air because they are actual puzzles. I've literally had to open a notepad to take notes so I could solve a puzzle. And then there are puzzles where you have a map and you need to find the locations in the world that are on the map but you first have to figure out what location on the world the map is referencing because it's not entirely 1 to 1 so sometimes I have the puzzle map open on my second screen in case I run into some area that looks like the map.

The combat is my god. I might just thrown my sword down and go full WWE because that shit is funny as fuck. I'm not joking. You can grab enemies and throw them at other enemies. You can clothesline, lariat, suplex, belly flop I don't even know what else. You can literally fight like a wrestler and it's just as flashy as you imagine it. The only problem with the combat IMO are the bosses. The bosses are bad. I've had I think 4 boss fights and 3 of them were literally just me tanking the hits because for the love of god I couldn't figure what I was supposed to do. Soulsborne games are close to my heart, I'm not swayed by getting my ass beat as long as I can figure out what I'm supposed to do to not get beat. But when I try literally everything that comes to my mind and nothing works I'm just going to evade what I can and tank the rest and beat through attrition. And that's not fun. The evasions on boss attacks are also kinda weird. I don't think I have that poor pacing but sometimes I press dodge at the same time I would always press it and sometimes I don't get hit, other times I get hit. Hopefully combat gets an extra pass by the developers because they've been pretty open to feedback and some obvious grievances have already been fixed.

Overall I'm so ready to play it for the rest of the year, which is probably how long it will take me to be done with the game.

I saw the trailer. I'm down for some sword fighting, horse riding, dragon riding. What throws me off is the train. Why is there a train there?