Honestly after playing it, I think it's going to get low 80s on Metacritic and will make people rethink the mania over Hollow Knight.

I've played for like two and a half hours and I had to basically force myself to even do that. I have zero desire to continue playing.

>>717726438
Every single aspect of this game is just designed to waste your time
>22 minutes and you restart from scratch
>oxygen and jetpack meters that last only a few minutes and require constant refill or you instadie
>constant time sensitive events like sand falling, sand rising, brittle hollow destruction, giant's deep islands flying up, interloper flying by sun, sun station, warp alignment, and sequential tasks
>multiple long, convuted paths that you must retread constantly to get one more tidbit of info or even have a brief attempt at a puzzle (if it even *is* a puzzle, or maybe it's a pointless dead end, or maybe you need to do something on the other side of the galaxy first, who knows)
>anglerfish where you can only tilt analog stick 1mm or they just instakill you
>glowing red (herring) light guarded by multiple anglerfish that amounts to absolutely nothing (not even the decency to give a shiplog so you just think you're missing something)
>magic reddit space computer tells you there is more to explore when it's a) on an entirely different planet and b) just lore flavor text anyways
>ghost matter to conveniently instakill you if you step one toe out of line
>need a special unlocked ability just to kill yourself and start a new loop
>even fucking waiting at campfire to skip time takes like 3 minutes straight of just staring at a timer tick up because it's so fucking slow
>overwhelming vast majority of shit in the game is utterly pointless aside from a bit of lore flavor text, a small minority is info (you can usually figure out yourself), and like 1% is critical path

Every single aspect of this game is just designed to waste your time
>22 minutes and you restart from scratch
>oxygen and jetpack meters that last only a few minutes and require constant refill or you instadie
>constant time sensitive events like sand falling, sand rising, brittle hollow destruction, giant's deep islands flying up, interloper flying by sun, sun station, warp alignment, and sequential tasks
>multiple long, convuted paths that you must retread constantly to get one more tidbit of info or even have a brief attempt at a puzzle (if it even *is* a puzzle, or maybe it's a pointless dead end, or maybe you need to do something on the other side of the galaxy first, who knows)
>anglerfish where you can only tilt analog stick 1mm or they just instakill you
>glowing red (herring) light guarded by multiple anglerfish that amounts to absolutely nothing (not even the decency to give a shiplog so you just think you're missing something)
>magic reddit space computer tells you there is more to explore when it's a) on an entirely different planet and b) just lore flavor text anyways
>ghost matter to conveniently instakill you if you step one toe out of line
>need a special unlocked ability just to kill yourself and start a new loop
>even fucking waiting at campfire to skip time takes like 3 minutes straight of just staring at a timer tick up because it's so fucking slow
>overwhelming vast majority of shit in the game is utterly pointless aside from a bit of lore flavor text, a small minority is info (yu can usually figure out yourself), and like 1% is critical path

>explore attlerock
>dead end that leads to nothing
>explore the underwater tunnels under timber hearth
>dead end that leads to nothing
>explore interloper
>dead end that leads to nothing
>explore sun station
>dead end that leads to nothing
>find all the reddit spacemen
>dead ends that lead to nothing
>explore white hole station
>dead end that leads to nothing
>explore entirety of giant's hollow
>rewording of what you learned in the tutorial of the game, except emphasizing that for some reason you can't both look at a quantum moon and land it on it at the same time (...wut?)
>explore the core of giant's hollow
>dead end that leads to nothing
>explore hanging city
>dead end that leads to nothing
>explore sunless city
>dead end that leads to nothing
>explore all the ash twin warp pads
>dead end that leads to nothing
boy howdy do I love this gay fucking game, totally not a waste of my fucking time

>explore attlerock
>dead end that leads to nothing
>explore the underwater tunnels under timber hearth
>dead end that leads to nothing
>explore interloper
>dead end that leads to nothing
>explore sun station
>dead end that leads to nothing
>find all the reddit spacemen
>dead ends that lead to nothing
>explore white hole station
>dead end that leads to nothing
>explore entirety of giant's hollow
>rewording of what you learned in the tutorial of the game, except emphasizing that for some reason you can't both look at a quantum moon and land it on it at the same time (...wut?)
>explore the core of giant's hollow
>dead end that leads to nothing
>explore hanging city
>dead end that leads to nothing
>explore sunless city
>dead end that leads to nothing
>explore all the ash twin warp pads
>dead end that leads to nothing
boy howdy do I love this gay fucking game, totally not a waste of my fucking time

>>714817410
I never understood the hate for ALTTP's graphics. They've always looked very clean, neat, stylized, charming, colorful, and quickly convey information at a glance.

So many games of that era, and even moreso now, focused on having realistic cutting-edge visuals, to the point where the screen just looks cluttered and messy.

>>11804831
>Back in the retro days