I'm just gonna say it :
Days Gone is THE best Sony open world game.
It's even better than Ghost of Tsushima which was heralded as the 2nd coming of Sony open world games and most definitely better than the Uber padded, bloated Horizon Forbidden west tripe in that it's actually fun to play and its world/map isn't littered with 10085858482882 gobshite icons/collectibles/points of interest, fuxk that shit.
Also, THAT ending really pays off...
On PS5, patched, it's easily an 7.5 - 8/10.
Goddamn is Sony tone-deaf most of the times...it's gonna be God of war and spiderman games til the end of times dammit...