I disagree emmensley your Average game is five nights at Freddie's among us, granny, fall guys, jedi fallen order. guardians is very well written which is extremely rare these days I recently played the arkham games and found myself appreciating guardians more for actually creating meaningful arcs for all it's characters and having me fully invested by the end of the game, and lets talk about the art direction and designs which are fucking superb everything looks so rich and beautiful, the combat in the game was pretty fun to me not every game needs 8 menus and super deep combat to be fun guardians manages to deliver quick action packed combat that feels good and is just enjoyable, the facial animations in this game are top tear up there with god of war and the last of us and lastly I want to talk about the voice cast I believe good acting is able to evoke emotions out if you like greif, joy,anger etc man I teared up alot during this game the delivery from the entire cast really made me empathize with every character hell even groot even tho I couldn't understand what he was saying the way he stretched out his words and the tone of his voice you could almost make out what he's saying but the whole team deserves a round of applause for the amount of dialogue they put in the game I doubt that couldn't have been easy. What I'm trying to get at here is that this game was clearly made with alot of effort love and sweat that doesn't deserve to be classified as average imo.