This isn't my favorite game ever, but it might be a perfect game? Everything from the music to the controls to the story to the level design all clicks together so beautifully. I honestly don't know what there is to criticize about this one.

I don't really like Mario's or the Goombas' sprites in this game, they don't really do it for me. But I mean also it's Perfect so like. Whatever.

I'd probably give this game 5 stars if not for the handful of openly homophobic scenes that both make me ashamed that I like any of it and also run directly counter to the story's themes of marginalized people rebelling against an oppressive hegemony. If I were writing a story about cool teens battling corrupt right wing politicians I would simply not be an unabashed bigot about it.

the worldview of GTAV is that the world's too cruel and terrible for even the possibility of goodness, and the only way to succeed is to embrace that and become the absolute worst person possible, but rest assured even that won't make you happy.

it makes my fuckin' skin crawl