I can't believe I never played this back in the day, what a ride! Sure the combat is mediocre, the animations and real-time cutscenes are iffy sometimes but come on if the good parts don't more than make up for them!

I didn't even mind running through the same copy+pasted bases and mines a dozen times on random uncharted planets, the world-building is next level and despite all its flaws it was addictive and enjoyable the whole time. I can't wait to start 2.

*The only real problem I have is - you guessed it - another trophy issue... I've completed the game, I've done over 40 side-assignments and yet the trophy for completing 'the majority of the game' hasn't popped. My gf got this before hitting the halfway point in the story and everyone online says they got it at ~55 total missions, I've done at least 60 :(