The combat just doesn't feel quite right, the enemies don't really have all that obvious tells, for example one of the enemies around your size have a telegraph where they shout and lift their hammer, and then they grab you, does not make much sense does it?

The enemies also seem to recover WAY too fast from certain animations too, like Impale, I've found it more of a danger to my combos than not as most fodder that gets trapped by that can and will INSTANTLY attack the moment the effect wears off, which can happen long before or long after the spikes themselves are broken or such.

In short, promising but with the current state of the game some weapon types are just not really worth going for in my opinion(Hammers or whatever they are here for example.) and using the strong attacks in combos is more dangerous than not as enemies recover more than fast enough to smack you and break the combo, which would not be an issue if it wasn't that almost every single non-bos/miniboss enemy in this game didn't have this problem, one of the most glaring ones to me of those being the troll beserkers or whatever they were called again, the ones that apply "fury" to other trolls around them.