First impressions - I'm surprised by how engaging and beautiful the cutscenes are, especially the scene where Henry's village is attacked The way the size of the huge invading army coming over the hill was revealed was extremely impressive, and when they shot their first wave of arrows towards the village (and the camera) I was reminded of similar battle scenes from my favorite films.
The following cutscenes in Talmberg were also great, and I loved how everyone really cared that Henry's parents had been killed. Many game stories just brush these things off (maybe this will too eventually, but it was still well done.)
And the attention to things like eating and sleeping!! I used to do activities like that while playing TES IV: Oblivion just for the sake of immersion. I'd eat dinner at night, get a bed in a tavern, sleep till 5 am, stock up with supplies I'd need for my journey to the next town, and set out on foot after eating my breakfast. Seeing these mechanics given so much attention in this game makes me really happy (and is one of the major reasons I've been waiting for this game for years)
The other reason was the landscapes - I'm probably gonna spend hours just meandering over the hills and through the forests in the coming hours (I almost died while being chased on horseback on my way to Talmberg because the forest, streams etc looked so damn good that I stopped a couple of times to take screenshots)
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