It seems like so many reviewers were so desperate for a Sony game to come out and not be up to the standard that the other first party games have that this became that game for them. As others have said their seems to be an agenda in the gaming media where reviewers are trying to take some weird moral high ground that they have never earned when talking about games and its characters, sometimes spending more time talking about how they dislike a character because they're not female, vegan or have an alternative sexual orientation, more than they actually talk about the actual game and what you'll be doing with your time. Eurogamer have been bad at this spending 7 paragraphs of its review on The Grand Tour bashing the hosts, as if somehow that person was better than them or anyone who may have liked the hugely successful show. They also did a massive fluff piece on how Kassandra from Assassin's Creed is seemingly the first ever female star of a video game and how she was empowering women, despite playing exactly the same as her male counterpart and the fact that all you really do in the game is mindlessly kill 100's of people. Polygon have done it too and many of the reviews of Days Gone have centred around something similar because none of them can see why Deacons wife married him and how they'd run away if a stranger stopped to help fix your car. Occasionally they still talk about gameplay but there does seem to be an agenda and if a games story doesn't want to play along with the current social buzzwords they will be criticised for it. Storytelling has come a long way in video games and can really enhance a game but a bad story doesn't make a bad game, a very large amount of your time with a game usually involves no story at all and it's in that time that a game really needs to be fun and engaging.

Then Days Gone comes along which isn't quite as good as an Horizon Zero Dawn, a God of War or an Uncharted 4 and it didn't have a politically or socially correct storyline and characters but guess what? Its still a very good game in it's own right and I like many others dont think it's been judged on it's own merits across much of the gaming media. Thankfully gamers seem so to have seen through all of this and are having a great time with the game, I've had fun with it, many on here have and all my friends seem to like it, even one who's barely been on his PS4 for a year or so is regularly playing.

A bit of a rant and if you got to the end well done, if it even made sense then well done me 😁

Happy gaming 😉