so like I said, I bought this game on sale a couple years ago and let it sit in my library for years after only playing the very beginning when I first got it.
that said, I started over from scratch, and this shyt was
the visuals

the gameplay

the story

the combat
like others have said, this is kinda like assassin's creed, except WAAAAYYYY better
I just beat the game two days ago, and now I'm going to be going to iki island, where the enemies are significantly harder, cuz I'm sitting at 83% right now, and I wanna at least finish the DLC. I'm not going for 100% though.
I'll be getting ghost of yotei for sure whenever it goes on sale.