It is pretty, and I did eventually go back to it and complete most of the story (I think there was a difficulty spike and I couldn't face it), but Oh It Is the Anti-Elden Ring.
Huge, pretty (and hell it's very pretty), but obvious, a collect-em-all, and mechanically not that good (and it felt the combat was distinctly more cluttered than the original, or it might just be that I didn't leap from it to Elden Ring?). It also loses points because the original had an interesting storyline. This inevitably couldn't reach those heights.
But I'm still looking forward to Call of the Mountain in a month's time, because Guerrilla can do pretty landscapes and spectacle. And it's not really like I expected any more from it.