stopped playing Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
PS2 version feels foreign to me. I'm used to PC version's clear blue skies and smooth high resolution. I think this game's aesthetic represented a kind of idealized platonic sunny weather, with the tiny city being so easily recognizable and intuitive to navigate. To this day I want to experience sunshine and palm trees without heat and blinding rays of sunlight. Just blue skies and people wearing colorful shirts.

Vice City was in many ways the complete opposite of 3, but that's what made it more endearing. The gameplay was mostly the same with a few quality of life improvements. Some of the new gameplay features enriched the atmosphere of the place and made it more immersive. Still, the gameplay mostly felt the same, and soon you'd run into a mission you couldn't beat. Probably my favorite GTA.