Got stuck in a really fun trance yesterday where I played this for 5 hours almost straight and now I've come back today and I don't want to play it at all :)

The destruction makes this a really fun sandbox that feels genuinely exciting when it's opening up but once it's open and you know exactly what the rest of the game consists of it's hard not to notice that everything besides the destruction stuff is kind of subpar? Story and world especially are absolutely grim and I think that's why most people (including myself it's looking like) give up with the game before finishing it, with the world being a series of empty feeling flat plains that I don't feel any push to discover and the story having such a default, characterless, syfy-ish tone.

Blowing things up and then experiencing the consequences of that is fun though! and most encounters do feel dynamic, i just wish there was anything outside of that