I’ve played every other mainline game in the series and a handful of spinoffs, but for some reason I put this one off for so long. I was expecting to enjoy it well enough, no less than the bad ones and no more than the good ones, but it surprised the hell out of me. This game rocks so hard. No other game in the series is this open or has these impactful decisions to make, and finding out that certain scenes I got are missable, and that I missed certain scenes only made me love it more. Even though I did for over a decade, this is not one to skip in a series playthrough