5 Hours played and... man, I don't know. GoT is one of my TOP10 games ever and I wanted to like this more. The first impression is of course sublime. The prologue and intro are just superb. Production is top quality: music, dialog, graphics, cinematography, you name it. Everything just oozes style and class.
But the more I play it, the more I feel it's a step down from GoT. The map feels artificial and gamey where you are constantly restricted by no-go zones. All the nice vistas, forests and mountains are just beautiful backdrops and not playable space. The card system is completely useless and the supposedly more organic and less repetitive formula is just marketing speech. I've already bathed in 3 hot springs, sliced 3 bamboo stands and bowed to 5 shrines. And speaking of the shrines, that's how you gain skills in Yotei. Simply awful.
It's a nice game, looks and plays great, but it's definitely not a 10/10 I hoped for. Currently I feel more like 8/10 and slight dissappointment, but we'll see how it goes from here.