Thoughts on Great Circle
The ending felt underwhelming. I started playing last weekend and 100%ed it earlier today. I had a few bad bugs, but luckily it didn't affect the story in any way. It's an amazing story nevertheless, with all the clues and notes that fill up the world. I do have issues with QoL and the autosaving, as when playing through the game, I wasn't looking for every little secret, so having to backtrack so far just to get one thing was annoying. Especially in the temple in Gizeh, because I had to go all the way back to the beginning of the temple to get out.
If I could just choose where I wanted to go when I backtrack to a previous location, that would have been helpful. Most annoyingly, the game doesn't autosave after you get a new note/picture, so if something happens, you have to go back and get it again. Towards the end, in Gizeh and the Vatican, I had a glitch where I could not change my outfit, which put me in some sticky situations, but I managed. The biggest glitch was that I had a guy I knocked out, who was permanently in my view whenever I was in the Vatican. None of the NPC noticed him, which was good, but he still had a model, so he kept knocking into everything.
I do wish that the ending had Indy going back to the US and reflecting on this adventure, because it draws a line that was left from Raiders with Marion. From what we know, Mutt was born in July of 1938. Meaning that the Siwa Cat Mummy expedition happened right after Mutt was conceived. It might be an easter egg for die hard fans, but it could also have flash forwarded a year later, after the events of Last Crusade, where Indy is writing his letter to Marion. (Which was mentioned in Crystal Skull). In the game, Voss touches an insecurity about Indy and his dad, so there could have been some parallels there, as they flashed back to the opening of Raiders, they could have done something similar with flash forwarding to right after Last Crusade.
The references were fun, from what I recall, the monkey from Raiders was mentioned ('the monkey was old, it didn't die from eating dates'}, the plane scene from Last Crusade was referenced. Even Lao Che was mentioned, which I find crazy because they refuse to acknowledge Short Round in any sense, because from what I've seen, Indy adopted Short Round. It would have been amazing to see Ke Huy Quan in Dials of Destiny at the end. Heck, they even referenced Willie Scott in Crystal Skull.
I do believe this is the last we will see of Locus, given Tony Todd's passing, unless they do a book sequel, with Indy trying to find the new 18th stone in Antarctica, but that just may be my coping, because we haven't had a single Indiana Jones book since 2009, and the last Indiana Jones game we had was Lego Indy 2 in 2009 as well.
