Ashen at first 10 minutes for me was HELL. I couldn't hear sound and to fix that i have to unplug my VR every single time i want to start it and play it. I also had freezing issues where i had to turn all of my graphics down then turn it back up later.
But 3 hours now (12/18/19) into the game i love it! It's beautiful and very challenging but it also does have some dark souls in it because on the first boss i couldn't kill it so i remember that its like dark souls and i upgraded my weapons and juice and then i went back and killed it easily. Another cool thing that comes later is fast travel. (not trying to spoiler it) but the way you do it just seems so cool to me. Anyway its a cool game.