I hope its scores very well (late 80s) I never got far in the OG Ghost. There were too many games to play at the time and a few dated design elements like auto fail missions put me off. I hope this is the perfect time to jump into the franchise.

To me it has RDR2 written all over it but totally agreed. This could end up with the AC shadows pacing issues if they have it structured like that with the Yotei six or worse, it could have writing like DA: Veilgaurd knowing the militant far left that control Sony studios now. 

One thing though, I don't think side content is going to fail (apart from writing) they're just too good at that and they know it's what made Tsushima stand out next to AC bloatedness. And sure they kept the graphics similar but that tells me they focused on the game instead and let the artstyle do the work. The game already looks timeless, it'll be one of those games that still looks good in 20 years. 

If it improves on its weaknesses it must pass 90...

89 it is. A little bit above what I was expecting. Happy for everyone looking forward to this game! Unfortunately, I’ll have ti skip b/c my current options for October are: Mario Galaxy 1/2, Pokémon Legends Z-A, and Final Fantasy Tactics…with DKBananza, E33, and KirbyATFL all in my backlog lol. (And a desire to dig further into MKWorld and Silksong.)

Stacked year!! Wow.

87 on Metacritic
89 on Opencritic

Great reviews so far.

Good reviews, nothing earth shattering though.

Nothing earth shattering? What were you expecting? This is Sucker Punch’s highest rated released by a pretty comfortable margin. 

I don't want to buy a PS5 version. I'll get it when it comes to PC instead.

I was interested until I saw they decided to change the protagonist.

What's wrong with them changing protagonists? I thought Jin's story wrapped up nicely in the first game.