I'm not even gonna make the obvious joke because you teed it up like that

ANYWAY so I played 24 hours of it over the past four days and it is just consuming me. the initial hour is pretty slow, but once it's metered out enough of your kit that you know exactly how to start handling things, it really opens up so much. it's also really easy to get yourself into a bad situation that you might not be prepared for but you're going to have to fight your way out of and, unless the level gap is super severe (like being level 15 and ending up in a zone where you really should be 70) you can usually make your way out of it if you put the work in, even if you do end up having to fight a boss to push through

despite how this makes it sound like it might be really punishing, it's also a game where I've only died twice, and neither of those times was when I wandered into a 70+ area at level 50 and just decided to power through it

also you get a gun