At 89%, maybe one day will come back.

Great production values, design kind of wears out its welcome as it goes on.

Gets sadly worse as it goes on (the mansion is a huge low point) but the music is consistently amazing and its really beautiful to look at.

when the entire gimmicks of the franchise are the major things that holds the game back

this manages to feel like a bunch of classic video games all at once, without any of the nonsense we had to put up with 20 years ago. it does things i have wished many other games would do and does them incredibly effectively.

A what if scenario wherein Westone develops a Monster World sequel on the Sega Saturn. One of the retro-throwback games that truly "gets it". All-time favorite "Metroidvania".