Truly a game of contrast. Such a freeing and beautiful open world coupled with such restrictive and frustratingly linear missions. Such great character writing and dialogue coupled with such garbage-ass mission design. Really enjoyed my time with this wonderful game, but god damn can it be frustrating. So many times I’ve failed a mission because I didn’t do exactly what the game wants me to. I didn’t even go out of my way to break the game or anything, it just happened naturally so, so, so many times. Not to mention how repetitive it all is. Start mission>Ride horse for like 5 minutes>Do a thing>Thing goes wrong>Shoot a bajillion people>Repeat like 100 times. Just a very flawed game, but the world is so easy to get lost and immersed in that it’s easy to forgive. And the writing is really good for the most part. Arthur especially, legit incredible. Overall, a bit of a mess, but what a beautiful mess it is.