playing a big name video game for a change. nine hours in so far. i tried writing a longer thing about it but it just kinda feels like there's been a lot of effective action sequences but also i'm pretty sure i'm barely at the beginning of the Story Proper and that's a long ass time to set the stakes for "the actual game". then again, i guess i'm expected to do like 50 hours of side quests in addition to the another 15-20 of main story i have?
it just feels like there's too much video game in this video game. it's an open world ish game, so i guess it's on purpose that it's not a super tight experience... but like, for that to work it requires me to get something from just wandering the world, and it so far doesn't feel like the type of open world game that does that for me.