Fantastic game. The boss fights and gameplay in this are top notch. I knew it was going to be hard, and it was, but eventually I "got good" enough to beat it.

Co-op is pretty fun but can be buggy at times. Although enemies didn't feel that much harder, I wouldn't say co-op was necessarily easier as you have to split resources like health. I like how you can still earn your own collectibles, ether, and weapon traits while joining another player's game. Ultimately it was the co-op mode that made me pick this one up to play with a friend, and I'm super glad I finally tried it.

I love this game.

I put 224 hours into it in the months immediately following release, just playing it without objective. I came back to it 5 years later to get my Platinum, and spent another 200 hours grinding for it. Most of the time that kind of grind makes me hate the game by the end. Not so with RDR2. There are definitely things I don't love about this game. How slow everything feels. How much you have to grind. How particularly unfair the Gambler challenges are. But all of the little things that bother me pale in comparison to what I love about the game: its amazing story, and completely jaw-dropping immersive world.