Taking a short break at 60 hours to leave a positive review; this game deserves much better than mixed. TLDR: this game has a lot going for it and I literally cannot stop playing it. If you are on the fence, spend 2hr (I spent 15) in their free demo then decide; the full game is basically just that but a lot more content. This game simultaneously fulfills both fantasies of smashing large armies into each other AND of destroying chaff as a one-man army. It's the power fantasy of darktide combined with the unit scale of total war warhammer, and the best part is I don't have to be a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ legend to play this game. There's some minor tactical depth that you can engage with (you can in fact micro every commander you have into the appropriate positions and use all of their skills) - if that appeals to you then go crazy. I just smash my army against theirs and cull chaff. There's a lot of fun scenarios that play out in this game and I really like that they put you on both sides of the dynasty warriors equations for their plot battles - sometimes you gotta throw down against someone that can solo your army in both the plot and in game and you drown them in your own blood. There's a lot of cool units to recruit, and unlike some other games, you have access one way or another to most of the units you can see (including some enemy ones). There's a whole subgame to building out your teams so they unit passives stack in your legion but for me I just like collecting units to smash into each other. This game also lets you recruit SO MANY companions (you need them to lead your squads) which is also great; I love grabbing named characters and shoving them into a giant army to fight some deific monstrosity from history. Gearing is pretty simple but also fun in this game - your weapon and some of your accessories show up on your character model (and your companion's character model) so it's always nice finding new models. It's also not super complicated so a lot of the time I just use whatever looks cool and has big number. I have a shield bigger than my character which I find hilarious. There is so much content to do. I'd describe it as the "one more turn" feeling from civ, except that turn is a a cool new unit, army build, or whole questline. I thought there'd only be a major questline per area (was thinking game would end at about 4-5 major quest chains depending how they set it up) but no, companions get entire quest lines, they combo into the side quest lines, and even after you finish a main questline it can spawn another questline. 60 hrs in, I have done 3 main questlines, have another 3 waiting and have no idea when I'll get to the end. You get unique weapons, units, and occasionally companions for doing these so I'm always having fun playing more. For the mixed - Yes, the english translation is bad. Your reading and reasoning skills will have to be at a relatively high level to get any enjoyment out of the plot, not because it's particularly dense prose, but because you will need to reason an outline of whatever they're trying to say and then deduce the actual meaning via context clues. While this can be a giant pain for many people, I put this as mixed because I actually really like the world building they do and a lot of the companion and sidequest plots are really interesting - I was doing one random sidequest which was helping someone I was 99% sure was a cultist, and it ended with him taunting and then killing an evil deity. He then gave me a cool sword. The english was bad, but the plot setup and even some of the lines where honestly great if you primarily read for meaning. Again, the translation is not good so the mental overhead for this can suck all of the enjoyment out of it, but this game reads like a passionate fanfic of someone who has several cool ideas that they actually try to tie together into a plot. It's not the lord of the mysteries but it's a lot of fun and more importantly gives a ton of great excuses to recruit cool units, fight cool enemies, and get cool weapons. The bad - this game has some bugs. It has autosaves so you can reload out of most of them to avoid softlocking yourself, the main one that is super annoying is that sometimes they screw up what text is supposed to display for certain scenes (e.g. character A is saying some text from earlier in the quest when they clearly shouldn't be, or some shopkeep is playing some unrelated quest text when you're just trying to offload your trash onto him). I've encountered this exactly once during my playthough when it mattered (during the capital MSQ) and it was really annoying but it was only for a specific part and I still got the overall plot. Some of the negative reviews have legitimate criticisms, but honestly I have a lot of the same problems they do (♥♥♥♥ bugs out, weird translation, they removed my favorite avatar from character creation literally why do games go out of their way to deny me a heavy armor character, just let me put a bucket on my head ffs, it's all LLM anyway, GIVE ME FULL PLATE ARMOR AVATARS YOU PUT THEM IN THE GAME AS NPCS CMON) but honestly I've dealt with worse bugs and they don't stop me having fun with the game. The polish is not fully there, but the game is, and the polish is playable enough. I still can't play CK3 multiplayer without desyncing after 20 years and the devs put out fixes everyday for this game so it's not that bad on the grand scale of things. I am having tons of fun with this game and cannot recommend it enough. I have tried to get this type of experience in other games (M&B + mods, bannerlord, total war, CK) and the closest I have ever gotten was spellforce or our adventurer guild. It's not going to appeal to everyone (but you can just play the demo for 2hrs to find out) but if you've ever wanted to fulfill the fantasy of being a hero leading an army fighting everything under the sun then this game can't be beat. The only thing I want out of this game right now is more time to play it, and I suspect that when I am finally "done" the game, the only thing I'd want is more units/weapons/companions/enemies to play and fight.