Are there interesting random events and npc interactions exploring the world?
Cutting bamboo is satisfying af i really hope they can add this on PS5 build of the game.
There is a bamboo "minigame" in some villages where you have to remember a button sequence and push those buttons fast to upgrade your special move/healing resource but you can´t cut bamboo in the open world which is really odd...they could have made it like in older games where you cut it, it blinks and vanishes, no cutting at all is strange and the fact that bamboo is an object you can walk through feels odd.
sometimes you find an npc you can talk to but i haven´t encountered any events yet
general impressions from me, might sound more negative as it is, i am playing on hard:
-uneven graphics, sometimes beautiful, sometimes dated
-many staple OW elements
-some things that feel a bit dated like handles on rocks to climb instead of freeform climbing or red barrels which explode when you shoot them with an arrow
-so far there are no enemies in the open world, only in camps or when doing a mission, maybe this changes
-things to explore are there, often with a little reward but it is still easy to find stuff
-combat is alright but it doesn´t hold even a little candle to Nioh or Sekiro, even on hard it is easy but at least fun and better as modern Ass Creed combat
-animations are very uneven
-stealthing is not really great, you even have a button which shows enemies with a red silhouette, you can´t move dead bodies
-often you have to investigate a scene for a quest and there are always 3 hints you have to find and click
-quests are better than standard OW quests, they are telling a story
-wind effects are beautiful, the landscape is the star of the game
it is an alright game so far to me, it swings between "wow cool!", "been here done that" and "that wasn´t good now". i am enjoying the landscape and atmosphere very much but somehow it is a bit rough around the edges.
edit: you can´t accelerate dialogues and you can´t skip cutscenes
