Maybe the single biggest disappointment I had in 2021. I'd been excited about this game for literal years before it came out and forced myself to play through the entire thing - hoping it would get better. The visuals are outstanding but the gameplay is... flat? The puzzles are fine, the action RPG gameplay is dollar-store Zelda, and the story fails to live up to its billing. I also got mad that we spent an absurd amount of time in one setting after the game set up that this is a road trip narrative.

I will support the studio's next endeavor, but I hope that they spend as much time thinking about the systems and plot for that game as they clearly did on the visuals and aesthetic (again, they're amazing)