I continued on with a fresh save file last night and find it even more fun that the first go around, enjoying the cutscenes and story and all and missing character that I have yet to pick up. Knowing the game actually doesn't ruin it, much like Sekiro it enhances it in a way. The level deisgn is so good, weaving and winding that knowing the main path doesn't matter cause the side exploration is still fun. I don't find myself rushing as I would replaying other games. I had a lot of time to notice the reuse of assets while doing NG+ for the platinum and it is genius but now only yhst, they reuse assets in the campaign, which makes sense to the story in the end but then go put of their way to make fresh areas for the side content and character quest stuff.
With expansion sized DLC and done well with good proportion to the main campaign this game has the best chance of any I've played at beating The Witcher 3 for top spot. I doubt it will but no game has come close to having a chance and this does besides Divinity OS2 and Baldurs Gate 3 which I still have to boot up... definitely not now cause this will make it's TB system feel poor not even Sekiro or Bloodborne or Elden Ring come close cause once you play those games once you can finish them so quickly.







