★★★★☆
Embrace the meme! Be a sneak wizard with your magic phone. Explore a masterfully crafted open world playground.

Pro/Con Feature List:
+ StunGun
+ Pretty city
+ Nudle maps
+ Helicopter jr
+ SuperNinja flips
+ Radio on the go
+ Landmark selfies
+ Hide in plain sight
+ Swoop between cover
+ Fast travel from the start
+ Smack people with a yoyo
+ Replay completed story missions
+ Collectibles are actually rewarding
+ SideQuests flow into the main story
+ Coop seasons based on participation
+ Ridiculously fantastic clothing options
+ Stealth takedowns work in active combat
+ Line hacking puzzles integrated into the world
+ Coop works well enough, but only for quick side missions
+ NPCs have tons of idle animations and unique voice snippets
+ Hacks are actually integrated into gameplay and useful this time
+ Sticky player physics, easily ride on top of cars or moving objects
+ Huge, detailed, varied, colorful world, full of meaningful interactions
+ Puzzle solving is especially interesting when all gadgets get involved
+ Get away with anything, without causing police agro, and police chases are actually entertaining, when they do happen
+ While you can't jump, the vaulting system in this game is fantastic, both visually and functionally. I've played 100s of games, this is the first one where a vaulting system may actually be better than jumping. If you could jump it, you can vault it.

+- Lite factions
+- Weak graphics and performance
+- App style menu, not quite as functional as an actual phone
+- Were they going for most "f*cks" in a video game? Did they win?
+- In-world GPS works well enough, but is missing floating turn signals and blinkers
+- Random friendly players seamlessly popping into your world is an interesting idea, but doesn't amount to anything
+- Having to manually control window washer platforms all the way up/down is quite annoying, a single button press would do

- Awful tutorial
- No checkpoints
- Can't hide bodies
- Open mic by default
- uPlay instead of Steam
- No down/revive system
- Can't preview paint jobs
- Smack dogs with a yoyo
- No character customization
- Hard transition into cutscenes
- Active mission doesn't GPS by default
- Can't see hacking tooltips while sprinting
- Not sure this soundtrack qualifies as music
- Quest list changes order every time you check it
- Can't play the campaign coop, only grind fetch quests
- When you do a cover takedown, you don't get back into cover
- Hacking invasions are game breakingly intrusive, but they can be turned off
- Accidentally cancel conversations with esc, since that's used for 100 other things
- Too many interactions involve holding E (instead of just pressing it), and are followed by a short halfassed animation lock
- Hacker vision is obnoxious, and needs to be on far too often - any time you're puzzle solving, or in a restricted area, or in combat
- The way enemies detect you for having a weapon out and/or not auto holstering it is a bit clunky. Even moreso because you can call in "allies", who are actually enemies, and then they turn on you for no reason.
- Steal people's money? Strange move for a super rich hacker group that's supposed to be for the people. Maybe the option to give them money instead? To buy followers (exp)? Especially considering how under-used money is.