Pros: incredible English voice acting, combat has DMC levels of ingenuity for combos, self styled difficulty levels, somehow managed to make a game of thrones story while throwing in Godzilla monster sized epic fights.
Cons: the stagger system can feel boring, especially in mini boss fights.
I would recommend the game alone for the cinematics, voice acting, and not needing to shoehorn any diversity. The monster design and detail on even goblins to be vicious little Pygmies.
So far the only “social critique” is slavery, and even then it’s empire combat thralls who are used like fodder with the main “rebellion” hub being pro capitalism. So less woke than really 99% of current games and if I had to scale it, maybe GoT season one level of woke minus the gay sex scenes.