Just finished my first playthrough.

Overall, I’d say it’s a 9/10. Really excellent game. Phantom Liberty is certainly one of the better DLCs I’ve played. Excellent writing, memorable characters, and pretty interesting gameplay.

I went with a mostly stealth character which I think suits this game well with the quick hacks and such. Vehicle combat did leave a bit to be desired though. It was just sort of difficult. I often found myself getting out of my car any time I had pursuers because it was just easier to kill them that way. I also wish that there was more incentive to play as a pacifist, but not a huge deal.

The main story was good but not quite great for me. This game was really more about the side quests for me. There’s the obvious disconnect between V only having so long to live and the fact that this game is mostly just about focusing on anything but the main quest to keep V alive, but I also think the game could’ve done more to build up a conflict with Arasaka. There’s story mainly focuses on V’s survival which sort of makes the stakes feel lower. Had Arasaka been more directly antagonistic or threatening, I think the story would’ve been stronger.

I went with the Aldecaldos ending (Panam romance). It was a bittersweet, but far more sweet ending. It had tragedy while still feeling very hopeful.

I did all the gigs and side quests. For the most part, they were really good. There were a few that felt low effort, but that’s standard fare for open world games, and the number of those quests was very small. Only thing I didn’t do was the NCPD hustles because there’s way too fucking many of them and they’re boring.

Got about 100 hours out of this one. I will definitely be doing another playthrough in the future. Great game.