This is the pinnacle of Halo as far as I am concerned. Singleplayer and multiplayer FPS absolutely perfected. At the time this came out, I had read every Halo novel and had tons of Halo merch and bought the collector's edition which came inside a Master Chief replica helmet. And it still managed to exceed my every expectation!

It is trippy and unique and I liked it. I definitely think it was a bit too hard for me and I was not going to put in the hours needed to actually become great at it and win.

This is a very highly polished portal experience. The puzzles are mostly pretty easy but not totally trivial. The plot is fine if not up to the hilarious high standards the portal games set.

My main criticism is that there is a lot of walking around aimlessly through environments between puzzles. Obviously they put a lot of time and effort into those environments but they added 0 to the fun of the game and just padded the game time. There were even several times when it wasn't obvious where to go next that I spent fumbling about just lost not even in a puzzle not even using my portal gun.

I also have one minor quibble about the last few puzzles that I won't elaborate on so as to avoid spoilers, but suffice it to say I had to redo parts of that puzzle that I had already solved many more times than any other puzzle before it.

2018

Best roguelike ever made. Supergiant is possibly the single best indie game studio of all time. Everything they make is a masterpiece. This game is the masterpiece of masterpieces.

Just horrible. It was so buggy and laggy it was barely playable and even if that was all fixed, it still would have been a mediocre Diablo ripoff.

So good I want it to become a genre. If I ever read anything say "Obra Dinn-like" I instantly buy the game.

Obviously it was amazing in a lot of ways.  The new abilities are way more fun than BotW, the story is definitely stronger than BotW, the puzzle design is way better than BotW, the overworld design is much more interesting, there seems to me to be less useless filler.  Someone who likes open worlds will want to explore every inch of this place because it is so well done.
It definitely has some flaws as well though. Weather is perhaps explained slightly better but still sucks.  Rain and lightning especially are awful and add nothing to the game but frustration. Upgrading armor is a super important part of the game that is basically completely opaque.  The questline required to fully upgrade your armor might as well require searching on the internet.  There were a bunch of shrines that were "transport this crystal back to the shrine" quests that were sometimes fun but usually super tedious.
While the main land has been vastly improved, the added sky and depths areas are sorely lacking.  The sky area is great at first until you realize that it is mostly the exact same area copy pasted about 10 times.  The depths has some fun enemies / mini-bosses but is mostly a vast emptiness made worse by the annoying gloom mechanic and darkness requiring you to constantly throw or shoot little seeds to light up the way. Tediousness is not gameplay.
Some of the controls are weirdly clunky.  Trying to run or jump while crouched doesn't work until you uncrouch. You have to run to put away your weapon otherwise the shield button does nothing. There are a bunch of times I can no longer remember when I thought things should work one way and worked another instead.  Also, switching between powers was weirdly slow, I couldn't just push the power button and the direction and instantly get the new power.  I had to hold the power button for a half second until the power menu came up and THEN I could point a direction to switch powers.
The open world does not do any favors to the progression of the story.  Because you can do stuff in any order, they re-explain what is going on about 15 times.  There is one long major cinematic that is repeated almost verbatim 4 times in the game.  It is so identical it feels lazy.  I did a series of quests to get a bunch of background story and that ended up being basically a waste of time because all the interesting bits were called out later about 5 more times in other story parts.
Overall, highly recommended but definitely flawed.  If you like open world adventure games, it may be the best one ever made.  If not, ymmv.

Puzzles are a bit too easy but what really kills this game is the pacing is ULTRA SLOW. The movement and animations during gameplay and story parts between gameplay are painfully slow as if to drag out the length of the game.

Amazing game. For the first 10 hours or so I was totally charmed and was thinking this is like game of the year material.
The game is WAYYY longer than I thought though and the story missions start to get tedious. The main gameplay loop stays fun throughout but they eventually overload you with little side hustles and extra game mechanics that are fun once but mostly a distraction from the most fun parts of the game.
Overall, it is charming, fun, and chock full of content. Would recommend.

16 player original Xbox lan parties were some of the most fun I have ever had in my entire life.

Luigi telling you his tale of his parallel slightly lamer version of your adventure is hilarious.

It was better than I expected. I had read that it was more like a demo than a game and took less than an hour to beat. With those expectations I still bought it and was very pleasantly surprised.
The mysteries were interesting, the mechanics solid, and it took me almost 3 hours. There were some annoying spots where I got stuck on mechanics I didn't understand or contradictions that I either tried at the wrong time or that didn't seem like contradictions at all based on my reading. All in all though, I am glad I tried it.

Puzzle game masterpiece. Anyone who loved Stephen's Sausage Roll or Snakebird should pick this up for sure

Criminally underplayed. A wonderful tough but fair puzzle game.

It was a total ripoff of Pokemon but Pokemon is great and it was a high quality ripoff. There were a few things that annoyed me about the game but overall I enjoyed my time with it.