Played this for a few hours last night.
The differences from the previous game are more than subtle.
I didn’t expect it to be that good at first, at least based on the very plain and almost dated art style and animations, but after a while I started to see the intricacies of its art direction and in fact how effective and powerful even the writing is.
It’s got a very classic story driven style to it. The hack and slash action when combined with the extensive cut scenes surprisingly ends up working very well to progress the plot based narrative.
Absolutely not what I was expecting, but then there’s a good reason people keep buying consoles.
It’s also extremely well optimised, and there’s absolutely no stutter. However, it took a driver update and not playing with the settings for things to settle down.
It’s also running quite well at 4K60 on an RTX 3070. VRR is recommended, and it can be quite demanding on the CPU.