yeah 90% of the games that come out are pretty awful, but I said more things after your quote.
If the fighting was entertaining and not just massively repetitive crap, it could still be entertaining, but it's the same crap in every game, with new cutscenes. The fighting doesn't really progress as the game goes on, a few new weapons, no real combo system, just very boring fighting. Block, hit the counter button, repeat forever.
While the story is interesting, the cutscenes are boring most of the time.
The game becomes one tedious crawl from 1 storyline scene to another. Every in between is pretty bland.