The cream of the crop. This category includes 5+ star games that you should really take the time and try out for yourself to see whether they are to your taste.
I'd give 6 stars , if I could!
Rota. Rota today. Rota tomorrow. Rota yesterday. Rota. Rota. Rota! 😍
99% padding and 1% illusion of choice, yet somehow I still can't bring myself to give any less than 5 stars. That in and of itself, takes skill.
Excellent, but struggles with pacing (the first 3-5 points of renown take longer to collect than the next 20+) and replay-value (most side quests, encounters, etc. are shared between the three main quests), in comparison to its much less feature-complete precursor.
Compared to its successor, 4x4 Archipelago, this game is much shorter (at most maybe 10%) and simpler in pretty much every way: the combat lacks many subtleties of the sequel, and also when it comes to getting the best prices, there is no min-maxing in 4x4 Galaxy.
So why am I giving it the same 5 star rating? Well, my only gripes with the 4x4 Archipelago, were with the pacing and replayability; 4x4 Galaxy does away with those, by being much faster paced and having much shorter contained playthroughs. All-in-all, this balances out being far less feature-complete than its successor.
