Fuck man I loved this game. Extremely engaging and very well made with an almost ridiculous attention to detail, especially for a big ass open world game. The characters were very memorable and the actors gave their all, even the minor NPCs you see strolling around town or riding their horses are well realized. Arthur Morgan is probably the single best video game protagonist I've ever seen, he's just such an interesting character. When the music kicks in, its amazing and compliments the on screen action greatly, graphics wise this is legit the first game that has made my jaw drop at how fucking beautiful it is at times.

The shootybangs are okay, but that's all. Guns sound great and they kick like a mule, but shooting them is kinda mediocre. The default autoaim snaps like a hungry shark and you can snipe anything on the same postcode as you with a shotgun, and I never found a specific set of tweaks in the options menu, things like reducing the autoaim or the sensitivity that made the combat fully click for me. Speaking of not clicking, the first person mode. It was cool for exploring sometimes, but for combat it was just awful, no matter what I did in the options, it still felt off. Its basically impossible to control your horse, the camera feels way too cramped even at the maximum possible FOV, and even walking or running feels like controlling a camera taped on top of a roomba. Despite this, I still adore this game and from all that I've played this year this might as well be my GOTY despite coming out on 2018