I was honestly surprised how good the storytelling and characters were in this game. I read the taglines on its steam page "difficult, soulslike" and thinking I'm mainly in it for the gameplay, but no, not only did it have great gameplay, it also had pretty compelling writing. Like story moments like Yi and Heng's relationship and Yi having to say goodbye to Shaunshaun actually touched me emotionally.

Also it's funny they snuck in a neutral but tragic portrayal of incest in this game that I got to respect the devs for that.

>>718823792
Something I'll add though is unfortunately something I'd admit is that the badges/skill system for both HK and NS aren't really that diverse with what you'd use in both games in terms of meta. You have a lot of these skills/badges but you're typically going to stick with a select few, though at least with Nine Sols it isn't as obvious and clear cut the best badge to use as Hollow Knight is with Quick slash and weak strength for straight forward dps boost.

Castlevania games while still having options that are clearly the best ones to use, still allow the freedom to freely change what the player is using anytime that it doesn't feel as restricted with what you can use that you can still experiment with other shit more.

>>532381798
I can think of two Chinese siblings that are Coffin coded.

They were fucking, weren't they.

>>715429551
Fuck man, Coffin ruined how I see fictional siblings. I just played Nine Sols and I can't help but see the protagonist and his little sister in an incesteous light. Doesn't help that one of the bosses you fight are the Feng twins that have some in game subtext that imply that it was romantic between them.