Elsewhere, you’ll duel beneath waterfalls and next to crashing waves, under an autumnal canopy, inside a cave amid floating lanterns and in fields of purple chrysanthemums and red spider lilies. The golden hour seems to last half the day – perhaps it should be renamed the land of the setting sun – and even the near-monochromatic snowscapes of the frozen north have a desolate, eerie beauty. It’s almost too much: when sumptuousness becomes the norm, the gasps come less frequently. Besides, for all its aesthetic splendour, what you do within that world isn’t nearly so striking.
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