I feel myself kind of torn when talking about this game. It's a good game, by all means, but in a way that it could've just been a considerably more solid experience, and it's just drawn back by many aspects that weren't really polished.

While the story and lore aren't anything innovative in particular, they're quite good and I loved them, they did a really great job in this regard...but then, there's the gameplay experience. I feel like Ender Lilies tries to be Hollow Knight so badly but really fails in that regard. The game doesn't have anything that makes it stand out against other Metroidvanias, and this, to be honest, wouldn't have been an issue if the game was well designed...but it's not. Especially in the later areas, it felt kind of frustrating seeing all the visual and narrative work they put into the areas, because then the gameplay experience was really frustrating, unfair and actually stupid at many times.

In the end, I really enjoyed my time with the game, but I cannot help but feel a bittersweetness about it, maybe I'd have liked it more if it was a VN, but who knows.