This game puts me to sleep. And I mean that in the best way possible. It's a very relaxing adventure that inevitably causes me to drift into the world of dreams.

All you do is take pictures and talk to wacky characters. All this game asks from you is to be curious and present, which is a nice break from the adrenaline-fueled action games I'm used to that require you to be fast, precise, and brave.

I wouldn't brand myself as the "cozy gamer," but I was genuinely disappointed when I finished it. Now I need to find another game to act as my sleep aid.

It's a pretty unique spin on the metroidvania genre.

Unfortunately, it's plagued by some of the worst boss fights I've had the misfortune of experiencing. The bird pope was especially bad, but the crab made me outright quit the game.

I don't care for the furry character designs; they could have been human and it wouldn't have changed the story. I didn't really care for the story either. It's gritty and gory, which I like, but there's no substance to it. Even if the ending is good, I'll never see it as the game never gave me a reason to stick around that for that long.

The music was nice, but there's very little variety. I spent so much time listening to the same "sad girl" tracks on repeat that at some point, I had to put on a podcast to replace the music to keep me from losing my mind.

I should have quit this game 2 hours in. I suffered through it for 10 hours. I wanted to finish it, but I'm done. The unskippable 9-minute cutscene of a boat slowly going from right to left was... yeah. I have no words. What were they thinking? This game is soft torture.

It also doesn't run at 60 fps on the Steam deck; it barely reaches 45.

This game is an absolute blast if you have friends. All of its gameplay elements, specifically untoggleable friendly fire + the quantity of respawns that your team gets, work so well together to create an experience where failure is fun and succeeding feels rewarding. Enemy variety is great; I find myself constantly surprised by new enemy types when I'm fighting both bugs and automatons, and sometimes I have to switch up my strategy on the fly.

I could keep gushing, honestly. I'm taking half a star off for now because of numerous server issues I've encountered, and the lack of the in-game currency that I purchased last night. I made a support ticket. If that gets addressed and I get my currency, this will be back to 5 stars. I'm sure the server issues will be ironed out in time.

UPDATE: my issue with missing super credits has been resolved, and servers keep getting more stable with each day. Thus, I'm bumping the rating up to 5.

I technically completed it, but it's a roguelike to you're supposed to do multiple playthroughs. Regardless, I'm done. This is one of the most annoying and shallowest games I've ever played. It tries too hard to be deep, but in the end, it doesn't matter. The world building means nothing to me, and the gameplay frustrates me. At the very least, you should be able to change your FOV if you're playing in PC. But the game has issues that go beyond that. EDIT: I played this game for another hour, and the writing is just borderline stupid. The game thinks I'm a revolutionary American teenager, and it seems to really want to cater to that. I quit the game a second time when the game forced me to have a meaningful conversation with Alex while he kept calling me homeslice. Genuinely the least likeable NPC I've ever met.

A very enjoyable co-op experience. This game didn't bore me at any point. The gameplay was superb and so much more varied than I was expecting. The story, although it didn't take any risks, it was still good and tugged at my heartstrings at times (especially the Cutie scene. If you played the game, you know which one). I will recommend this to anyone who has at least one friend with no hesitation. Only one person has to own the game anyway thanks to the friend pass, and it's even on the xbox subscription, and it's currently on sale for 75% off during the time of writing this. You're doing yourself a disservice if you skip this one.