Dark Souls came to my mind while playing this game. So did the parkour movement mechanics of Assassins Creed.. The combat felt heavily borrowed from The Witcher. But as far as difficulty goes then its like Dark Souls (Okay not THAT hard but..) It went right in the bin because I do not cater for too hard games. Im more of a story type who enjoys a little stroll.. This game is not really "hard", but it sort of taunts you instead of challenge you. You trying to take down a captain and his henchmen. Suddenly you get swarmed by other idiot orcs who calls in reinforcements. And you just stand there like a tit, slashing down orch after orch that keeps joining in.. But eventually you die in the slashfest. And is not that they take 3 slashes and they are down.. NO.. the need like 10-15..
So each battle is like a long snoozefest.. Just mashing buttons.. Counter.. hack-slash-hack-slash.. counter.. etc etc..
I DO like to grind in level and collect stuff. Like level up the character before venturing on with the main quest to get some sort of bang for my bucks. But in the end it got repetitive and boring. Didn't bother to finish the story. Wiped the game of my drive and moved on..
If this game had a Normal difficulty for those who like to just be in it for the storewide.. And one insane hard difficulty for those who like it.. then it would be fine.. But the game sort of adjust itself by your skills.. I did not notice it but I read about it...
Whatever.. Boring game..