The weird and slow first hour of this, I was wondering if I'd been trolled and the internet lied to me about this game being amazing.

But the game is amazing. It's super janky, runs terribly, looks awful, but that isn't enough to stop it from being an amazing story, atmosphere, and gameplay loop. I dream of a version with a higher budget studio behind it that can actually run properly (although I'd elect to keep the super clunky combat).