Thanks for your write up! I recently beat HFW, and by the end I was pretty burnt out on big open world. I start amazed and want to collect/see everything- but I can only keep that up for so long. In the end, I kicked down the difficulty and breezed through to the credits.
That being said, it's a beautiful, amazing game, and I want to come back to clean things up a bit more (barely explored the West Coast), and of course to play the DLC. Your write up, while spoilery, was super helpful in letting me know what to expect from the expansion. Sorry I can't discuss BS yet- but I wanted to comment that I appreciated reading your take. It made me want to dip back in! If only there was a lull in great new games this year...
Haha- no, this is a new mainline entry. That was last year's "Stranger of Paradise".