This game is very pretty, but also rather buggy. While in combat, you can trigger cut scenes, which doesn't stop the enemies from attacking you. While trying to trigger cut scenes, there is a decent chance that the game thinks you want to attack. Sometimes you will be able to jump down off a ledge, and other times you can't jump down if your life depended on it because you keep grabbing the ledge and pulling yourself back up. Sometimes ladders just let you clip through them instead of you climbing them. Most of the time to climb ladders you point up on the analog stick. Sometimes you don't, you have to point left or right.
Sometimes the giant fish swim over the land instead of only in the water. There are places in the water that you can't actually get out of because the only path out is being blocked by invisible water currents, which just soft locks you (thankfully there is a respawn option in the menu, I couldn't even get to anything to kill me so I could skeleport)

I really wanted to like this game, but it is so frustratingly inconsistent and buggy and honestly it seems to only get worse the more hours I put into the game. Reached a point that the annoyance outweighs the joy of playing

Gorgeous world, great puzzles and combat: games like this are sadly not seen much anymore.

Its slow-paced gameplay is a breath of fresh air in nowadays game industry, where most games with real-time events encourage and reward impulsive behaviour and reflexes. Hob isn't like that.

With Hob, you have to stop and think. You have to plan ahead. You must observe. You must be patient, and you must experiment. If you rush into things, you'll get punished. You'll get lost.
It's really something special that holds great value, it requires the player to go into a state of mind that is peaceful and analytical, relaxed but active, patient and observing.

Lots of people aren't fond of this game exactly because of the aforementioned reasons, but that's because they are missing its whole point.

Good game
Could be a bit more polished but gameplay is fine and entertaining