The classic Borderlands gameplay loop is at its best here thanks to great performance on PS5 and a few new welcome gameplay features, but the story content is just not good; It boils down to a ton of waiting around for characters to finish their excessively long stretches of dialogue so you can either go fetch them something, kill someone, or place/remove an item in their hands. The DLC only rubs salt in the narrative wound with another 15-20 hours of largely boring and repetitive characters written by the teenage sons of all the developers (Bounty of Blood is the best of the bunch thanks to its setting and array of new enemies which felt Oddworld-ish).

This is also the easiest entry in the series by quite a stretch, and as soon as you hit max level (which I did long before my time was over with the game) everything begins to feel moot as you race from objective to objective killing enemies with a single bullet. You can crank things up with a later added Mayhem mode but why bother? Sure, I can get marginally better loot, XP and rewards, but for what? To kill enemies that I made tougher by my own design? It just doesn't make sense to impose more suffering on yourself in the form of extended health bars and shields.