brilliant writing and message, Arthur Morgan is one of the best characters in any media and that's not counting the rest of this game's cast, for an storyline perspective this whole game is extremely rewarding. enjoyable combat and exploration, the game world feels alive/immersive and activities like hunting or fishing enhances that feeling perfectly, finely crafted on these details.

the missions are extremely restrictive and rigid on their design, basically follow an NPC around until something happens (usually is an shooting gallery) for nearly 60 hours, clunky movement and it's reliance on slow burn animations to every action that the player wants to do are definitely huge problems, makes replaying the game an more painful experience, there are some undercooked mechanics too such as the health, energy and Dead Eye cores could have been more fleshed out, maybe some more needs such as hunger or thrist would have made more sense I imagine, there are some mods that bring this to the game though.

the game does suffer an drop on writing quality once you reach Guarma, it's not an bad section but it's overall uninteresting compared to any previous and future story arcs, feel like they should have gone more crazy on it.

even though these problems suck I can't deny that this is an overall an brilliant game, it deserves this rating, the story and character writing makes the experience worthwhile and that's not counting the immersive open-world and fun side activities, the combat is enjoyable enough for those seeking an solid third person shooter. look for varied activities if you want to enjoy this though, I can't imagine someone blasting through this game's whole storyline that easily reach up to 60 hours without getting tired.