Holy fuck. What a beautiful game. The gameplay is probably the best in the series so far and the story was just so good, like it’s predecessor the twists recontextualize the whole experience.

The ending had me crying like a god damn baby. The ladder sequence also made me cry, such a simple moment but it was so impactful. The theme song is also probably my favorite video game theme song ever. After beating the game I just let it do it’s thing and the theme song played. I sang along and the lyrics were also recontexualized for me as if it were being sung by a true patriot. Like seriously, I just cried trying to sing along to the song. Ugh it’s so fucking good.

I’ve been going through a tough time lately and this game helped me out so fucking much. These games make me want to live! What a masterpiece.