This would be one of my favorite movies if it was one. I love the monumentality this game builds on, but those are the things I would rather see in a book or a movie. This was a great moment for the series to leave its Resident Evil roots to go into something original, but we were left with exploring a really monotonous tower that contributes nothing to the high octane action this game is identified with. Giving it 2,5 stars, because I only beat it once and my only motivation to play it again is for the cutscenes. I'm far from target audience for Itsuno's take on beat'em'ups being high-skill sandboxes, but ultimately there are things I like about this game, yet there are things that make me hard to enjoy it.

Finally, a game with writing that's on par with good books. As for the gameplay itself, it's another open-world game where you spend most of the time going from point A to point B and then doing some scripted missions, where the combat itself, because of how Arthur feels clumsy, isn't that fun. I keep hearing the story about how you, as a player, helped the guy who was bitten by a snake, and then he offered you to cover your chosen purchase from Gunsmith for free. The only thing that makes it interesting is how the game makes it look like it was a random event that's unique to your playthrough. If it was something that the game forced you to do, I don't think it would be that popular. And this game is full of situations like this. That's pretty much Red Dead Redemption 2 for me - a state-of-the-art game that used the wrong medium to tell its story. Two starts seems low, but ultimately I've beaten this game, and I barely have a reason or motivation to replay it.