Kyrat, its mountains, its charging elephants, and a tyrant in a pink suit serving you tea.

Far Cry 4's profile tells a strange story. On the desert island question it sits ahead of 91% of games, and on the wish to rediscover it fresh, ahead of 92%. The community clearly remembers a playground worth packing. And yet, on attachment it falls hard, ahead of only 23% of titles, and fun collapses further still, down at 15%. That is the tension: a world you dream of exploring again, but one that never quite hooks you emotionally and rarely triggers the session that runs to 3am. The soundtrack fares better, ahead of 73% of games, and the feel with a controller stays in the upper middle, though that rests on few votes and needs confirming.

The gap makes sense for a 2014 Ubisoft open world, tuned for density of activities rather than long memory. Next to open worlds that stick through their characters, Far Cry 4 bets on the sandbox, the animal ambush, the joyful accident. That produces anecdotes, not necessarily a bond.

So, who is it for? For you if you like a landscape that offers twenty ways into the same outpost and lets chaos do the rest. Much less so if you want a game that stays under your skin once the controller is down.