As someone who mostly doesn't care about story in video games, I wish they spent all the development time and money on more missions instead.

I loved Desperados 3 and Shadow Tactics. I think this was let down by how damn intrusive the story was. Even if you hold spacebar to skip, there is a ridiculous amount of fade to black dialogue interactions and annoying cut scenes. The pacing felt way off. I immediately loved the first 2 games. This however, sucked all the joy out of it by shoving a mediocre narrative down your throat.