Death by a thousand cuts is not all bad, is the combat system that sucks.

You can't properly counter enemy combos with a melee equipped, their follow up attack always hits. That's for the most part why this mission feels like shit. You have to drop the cleaver, and even then the disarm counter auto equips them, so manage to stay unarmed for the rest of the fight too. I wasn't bothered by the poison screen effect but I'll admit that probably sucks for people with motion sickness.