I'm about five hours into "Horizon 2", and I'm not sure I can keep going. The first game already had the "woke dial" on maybe a six or seven-- but I could plug my nose and get through it. This sequel is at about a nine or a ten. Every single white male character I've encountered so far is either evil, ridiculously passive, or a doddering idiot. Meanwhile, all of the women are the crude, vulgar, frat-boy lesbian types. The noble male characters thus far have all been blacks.

Aside from the Victimhood Olympics nonsense, the writing, dialog, and characterizations are so paper thin, I can scarcely believe what I'm watching. My eleven year old daughter's writing is orders of magnitude more sophisticated.

Then you get to the protagonist, who is about the most unlikable character I've ever encountered in a video game. It's like they wrote her to have as repulsive of a personality as possible: she has no sense of humor, no warmth, no graciousness. In every interaction she's smarmy and sarcastic: hand on hip, doing the weird side-to-side neck crane deal black women do when they're trying to get free shit in a McDonald's, mocking the white guy she's invariably lecturing. There are literally no redeeming aspects to her character as a human being. She's the kind of person who would clear rooms at parties.

Beyond that, they took the character design and essentially made her twenty percent fatter, and her skin twenty percent more pock-marked. The Left hate female beauty with a passion.

I'm going to give "Gran Turismo 7" a shot in a few weeks. But if that one winds up being a dud or simply not that interesting, I'm just going to pawn the PlayStation 5 on eBay, and probably the Series X too. The most fun I've had by a wide margin with any video games over the past twelve months or more has been playing "Crash 'N Burn" and "The Horde" on 3DO. Nintendo's stuff isn't "woke" yet, so I'd still have the Switch-- albeit some of the character designs in "Arceus" raised my eyebrows...