I have so many problems with this game, I don’t even know where to start. It feels like the game is straining against its mission based framework, which only really means that I’ll have to replay huge swaths of the game, if I ever want to take a break. The combat feels floaty and weightless and attacks come so swiftly and deal too much damage for having so little telegraph, almost like I’m working my way through each encounter, not based on prior knowledge or any meaningful skill, but through panicked instinct, which is only made all the worse by the fact that I don’t trust the dodge to see me safely through attacks. The stance system changes the timing of the dodge action as well as the Iframes associated with it, and hit boxes haven’t adjusted to match, meaning that the only dodge worth a damn is the quick step which takes you so little distance that I can’t even tell it’s happening half the time.