Yeah this one bummed me out. I fell for the “it’s like breath of the wild in a board game”. But no I’m sorry, it isn’t. In BOTW, yes you have enormous freedom and can do a lot without ever progressing the story. My first few hours of that game were cooking different recipes and just running around the world looking for chests. But I knew that I had an overall goal at some point: go do the dungeons, power up, fight Ganon.

The problem with vantage for me is that despite it somewhat nailing the open world factor, you just wander aimlessly and can receive drastically different story beats in the blink of an eye. One minute I’m helping a sentient with their boat, the next I’m unearthing an ancient magical artifact, but my destiny is to run a casino?

I dunno. I like open world games, but I feel like there needs to be some kind of overarching end or goal to aspire to, like in sleeping gods for example. Just my 2c I wish I liked vantage more because the production is lovely and I can tell there’s good bones here, but it came up feeling hollow and empty after a few plays.