Good graphics, great narrative, excellent sound, extraordinary art direction and wonderful gameplay but ruined by technical problems.
The game could be excellent, almost everything it does, in my opinion, it does very well, among which it is worth highlighting:

• its narrative
• it's challenging
• addictive
• its sound
• graphics
• its art
• its (wired, yes, but) excellent and superb use of the DualSense

... however, all of the above is thrown all away by the monstrous, irremediable and constant STUTTERING.

Although it can be greatly reduced by limiting the fps with RTSS and disabling RT, it does not disappear and ends up breaking the immersion and the aesthetic experience. And this alone is catastrophic and enough to ruin the whole.

It's mind-blowing how Housemarque (or Climax Studios or both, although the game has the same problems on PS5 judging by Digital Foundry) have ruined their own work either by action or omission: the former because if the cause is the Unreal Engine 4, it is known in advance how disastrous is with the stuttering (Dead Space Remake, The Callisto Protocol, Diablo IV, among many others); or the latter because they have not done the necessary to solve the issue whatever the cause.

I must say that apart from that I have not had any other issues with the game, except the ridiculous and embarrassing texture one that appears after a few hours but it can be solved by restarting, so is not severe. Also, that I have tried many ways to solve the stuttering issue: lowering the graphics to minimum, editing the Engine.ini file, forcing DX11 (it's even worse), disabling SMT, and others but obviously without success.

My specifications:
Ryzen 5 5600X
16GB RAM
RTX 3070
XPG GAMMIX S70 Blade Gen4 1TB (OS, Steam and game).

I'm very careful when giving a positive review because of how many ♥♥♥♥ games I've played that had positive reviews.

Let me just tell you, brothers, that this isn't an easy game. It has a dark souls component without being darksouls series kind of game. You'll die, over and over again until you get good. And the story keeps unfolding in a fascinating, dark and mysterious way. I usually hate questing and rarely reading the stories in game due to how boring, predictable or cliche like are, but this one was like a dark SCI FI movie where I got to be the main actor. I can't recommend it enough to anyone that got bored and needs a fascinating and challenging game. Kudos to the creators. We need that kind of creativity and inspiration in the current gaming market.

Sure, it certainly has small annoying bits that I didn't like here and there, but overall, in an overwhelming proportion, it delivers.

Awesome game,