This game doesn't know when to stop. Every single thing in it is put in place so as to facilitate the player's relationship with the object - the way you glide, shoot and relate to its characters. So of course it's fun - at times exhilaratingly so - but I find myself demanding an annoyance, a chance to breathe that would get in the way of this constant flow of "things".

This is not Respawn's design though, because Apex Legends is slick, accomplished. But just as I can play ten games in a row while finding new ways to approach its gunfights, I will put it down at a moment's notice and leave with no hesitation, no sense of longing.

Apex Legends is violently pedestrian.

[Updated since I replayed the game quite a bit these days]