I second everything you said. I was pleasantly surprised (and dumbfounded) when I discovered the quick load-times. After playing many of the Assassin's Creed ga

I second everything you said. I was pleasantly surprised (and dumbfounded) when I discovered the quick load-times. After playing many of the Assassin's Creed games, I expected the usual die-and-wait-5-minutes for the world to load, but Ghost of Tsushima continues to impress me in many ways. I'm also one to get easily bored by repetitive combat, but for some reason this game's fun-factor makes it very tolerable. My only issue is sometimes after completing a mission, there's what appears to be an abnormally long cut scene of the character sitting or standing next to his horse. This is a very minor thing though. Everything else with this game is exceptionally well done.