After 2h i can say that atsu look worse in still frame pics than in the real game, she is really just an average asian woman, not ugly not beatiful, i know i'm gonna get shit for saying this
Combat seems a bit harder on lethal, enemy attacks\combo are just straight up faster and i dare to say i saw a dude making a slight feint to throw me off? but enemies dies in 2-3 hits so it's balanced, hopefully it doesn't make the whole progression related to defence useless like it was in horizon\gow on ultra hard where the special armour let you survive 2 hits instead of 1

I remember tsushima having some armours that were pretty broken in term of survivability so i think it's gonna be ok.
The characters feels maybe a bit heavier than jin? it has been a while since i played tsushima.
The graphic are...ok-good, large fields with grass, flowers and an evocative background is where the game is at its best, the closer you get and the less grass\flowers there is, the worse it get.
At its best look almost as good as the average quality of fw but with better artstyle, but it doesn't touch the highs points nor the excellent points, characters outside of atsu and the very most important like the six, are pretty unremarkable, i was expecting a bit more, the first past section with the family is a great example, overall nowhere near the best metahumans of horizon, anal wake, ds2 etc.
I like the story and setting more than tsushima, less grandiose and more intimate and nothing of that honor bullshit that was straight up fantasy and not how real samurai are, and saito seems to be a more multifaceted villain than kothun khan or whatever the name, i really like his english voice, but tbf khan was also pretty cool in the first hours and had a great voice, hopefully saito doesn't turn into a gossip girl first and a scared bitch later in the game like khan did or doesn't have a line like "you and me are pretty similar", and if he use it, i hope atsu respond with something like "yeah we are both cunts" or some shit

Can't say much about atsu for now, but i do like some of her smirky facial expressions, she feels a bit less dull than jin, but i never liked him that much other than his voice.
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the hurting stance that i spoke before seems to be kinda pre-canned in some encounters, i had it in a small quest with a dude but i'm not sure of it, enemy dies with your first 2 hit combo for now so they don't have time to show any stance.