To add fuel to the fire that no civilian carries any importance to this title after you defeat the boss, you’ll progress to a new area. The game warns you can’t return once you go, but why? There are still side missions and even a few story missions that can be taken on, but you lose access to them after progressing. This also hurts the general multiplayer element where I brought my friend to my game. We did a final mission of an area and then moved on, which caused them to skip multiple story missions on their campaign. This is typically mitigated by only being able to play the player’s campaign that has progressed the least. Still, it further emphasizes that the core story is left as an afterthought.