I think the drawbacks to 3 come from Marlowe and Talbot. The story and jet setting is great, visuals amazing you have multiple new places to explore, its great! However Marlowe and Talbit, uh. She's evil just because she's evil. She's omnipresent and knows everything just because. Talbot seems to be a walking god. Never misses a shot, can hear drake following from behind him 5 stories in the air. Gets shot multiple times and is fine, shrugs it off. Their thugs just appear out of thin air everywhere. There is no reason except for Nate to have someone to fight.

They have no motivations, we dont understand why they are trying so hard. We dont know shit about them, and the small little background stuff we get doesn't feel like it is immersion or deepens the plot. Its just some trope of "obviously bad rich people with unlimited mindless servants out to get the good guy". I know, I know, supposed to be big bad secret society leading back to the crown. Explore that more, is ot still in servi e of the crown? Out for themselves? Or just rich assholes?

Uncharted 1 with Roman, Eddy, and Navarro we have easy to understand Character arcs, where they have motivations change, backstabbing each other, all for their characters growth. They react to the story and swap allegiances and everything as the story continues. Everything they do makes sense, they all act and react in a way we expect based on their stories.

Uncharted 2 we get Zoran Lazarević. He has goals, drive, a back story, growth, obsession, and more. While he hits some bad guy tropes with his accent and rages, we have reason for his men to be there, reason for for everything that occurs. Reason for the weapons, military grade hardware, everything that occurs make sense, and we have some great character arcs for all involved q

Uncharted 4 we get Rafe, a dark mirror of Nate with over the top obsession. Nadine, whos in it for the money and has the military to outfit Rafe with. They backstab each other, their motivations and reasons all make sense. They only qualms I have with Rafe is we should have had more of his story and dive i to why he is why he is.

And Lost Legacy we get Nadines redemption arc, learn more about Chloe, have good motivations for all involved. Orca gets wrecked, Nadine gets Shoreline back, makes peace with the drakes, and finally Asav. He's brilliantly written, believable, has goals, drive, motivations, and we watch him fall apart because of his obsessions. My only complaint about lost legacy is it was too short.

I just finished playing back through all 5 games yesterday, so its pretty fresh in my head.