There is no occasion in which a game about being a vampire should render a player experience where almost 100% of your time playing makes you constantly ask "Why am I SO slow??"

Movement in this game, be on foot, as a wolf, on a horse, is a nightmare. Dashing offers some barely perceptible modicum of relief, but is timed to cool down JUST too long to be useful in a pinch. Particularly for boss fights wherein outmaneuvering an enemy is the intended strategy. I want to love this game. I love almost every other aspect about it. But this is core to -EVERYTHING- from building to combat, and it is an absolute slog,

Perhaps there's better movement options in the endgame, but that just raises the point that letting players navigate at a speed beyond "slow and plodding" should never be an endgame unlockable to begin with.

There is no occasion in which a game about being a vampire should render a player experience where almost 100% of your time playing makes you constantly ask "Why am I SO slow??" Movement in this game, be on foot, as a wolf, on a horse, is a nightmare. Dashing offers some barely perceptible modicum of relief, but is timed to cool down JUST too long to be useful in a pinch. Particularly for boss fights wherein outmaneuvering an enemy is the intended strategy. I want to love this game. I love almost every other aspect about it. But this is core to -EVERYTHING- from building to combat, and it is an absolute slog, Perhaps there's better movement options in the endgame, but that just raises the point that letting players navigate at a speed beyond "slow and plodding" should never be an endgame unlockable to begin with.