The Good
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Shooting: The different classes of guns make for a nice selection and then add to that elemental effects and you have a pretty diverse lineup.  Shooting enemies is fun and rewarding. 

RPG Elements: The leveling up isn't super in depth, you level up your skills with individual weapon classes and your special ability.  But being able to decide that I want to be able to stun enemies rather than getting health back is very rewarding.  It really is these small and simple things that make the character feel "mine". 

Bosses: While I don't think you can actually "lose" a boss fight and start over again, I did die a lot during them.  I have to say there was a good variety of bosses and they were all pretty interesting and fun to fight.  But I do feel like the final boss came out of nowhere.

The Bad
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Story:  Anytime I managed to get invested, they pulled me right out of it by telling the majority of the story through text.  A semi interesting character dies and one point and I don't know how or why he ended up dying.  The voice that talks to you is so cliche and uninteresting I wish they would have taken her out completely. 

The Great
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Little Things: Some games have it and some games don't.  Borderlands has tons of personality. It really makes the best out of what it has.  There isn't a lot of variety in the enemies, but they make them interesting.



Quick Shots:
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• I really want a life size Claptrap to follow me around.
• I bought both the opening song and the closing song.
• Ninja Assassins are awesome.
• I played as the Siren and got to level 35 on my first play through.
• Can't imagine why someone would choose a shield that doesn't replenish health.
• There was only one case where I chose a weapon because I liked it better even though it didn't do as much damage
• Once the Phase Walk (Siren's special ability) actually is strong enough to damage people I loved it.
• I wish there were less areas and less loading screens.
• I might actually play through it a second time, not sure.
• I played it co-op the entire time.