The game in its core is good. The story is great, the music is top notch, and there's very noticeable improvements in the character models and their animations compared to Sword and Shield.

...but the performance is so unbelievably dogshit, to the point it actively makes the experience worse. The game lags and stutters all the time, even if you so much as move the fucking camera sometimes, the texture work is horrid especially on cliffs, and the world overall just looks embarrassing in a way it wouldn't have been considered good even 15 years ago. There's also a handful of really odd QoL steps back from the previous games. Also, voice acting is painfully overdue.

Reviewed on Aug 09, 2023


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