The combat in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is terrible

EDIT: This little splurge is a response to people complaining that I didn’t give a fair showcase of the combat system in my prior review, found here - A lot of people took issue with my last review when I claimed the combat system was simplistic, then tried to call me out as a hypocrite when I ran from a stronghold fight at the end. The reason I ran from the fight is because I didn’t want to spend 15-20 minutes mindlessly killing enemies. I decided to revisit a s