I finally played this. I liked that I played another PS4 eXclusive and another open world IP. I only picked this up because of Ghost of Tsushima. This game weirdly feels small and I didn't really miss out by not picking this up before. My problem with the Just Cause games is the map is too big, and its the opposite here. The map is too small and it feels like a small town when you roam around and the roads aren't wide. The playable character having powers reminds me of the 2018 Spider-Man and Arkham games, and the map of those game feels large compare to this. Aside from the small map, there's not a lot of side things to do here. The fast travel here is useless, like it only needs 2 fast travel locations. The map is small and the playable character can superspeed run anyway. When I started to free roam, I managed to almost finish every side stuff in the first region and activated almost every smoke ability before I started the next main story mission. The graphics are good but I'm not a fan of the lighting, even when I adjusted the brightness. I don't like that this game doesn't have a night and day cycle, it depends with the last main mission you finished. I only got the nice weather after I beat the main game. The playable character doesn't have costume changes except for the print design in his jacket, which is hardly noticeable. There's also no main menu. However, this is one of the few games I've played that uses the motion sensor of the ps4 controller and its touchpad as a touchpad. So thats something this game has that other open world games don't have in the ps4.
The saving grace of this game is the main story. It was engaging even though the characters fell flat to me. Some of the missions were challenging, especially the boss fights but not frustrating. I really liked it when I got new abilities, those were the exciting parts of the game. But still, the main story was short and the characters were quite underdeveloped. I also don't think they really made the most out of all the abilities the character got. Then the Paper Trail side quest was boring and repetitive.
Knowing this game is short, I took my time. However I still finished it under two weeks. This is the shortest open world game that was originally released for the current gen consoles, I've ever played. I'm kinda disappointed with how short this is. I know I can do a second run with the Evil Karma, but I didn't like this game that much to do that. Over all, I'm going to give it a 7.
After playing this, I'm not sure I would buy First Light. From what I read, it can be finished in 4 hours and that is simply too short for me.