Not quite as good as the original game but that is mostly down to the lack of variety in biomes and the sense of discovery not being there in quite the same way but the new on land stuff is pretty cool even if it feels weird to have so much on land stuff in a game all about exploring an uncharted sea planet is kinda weird but the snow stalkers are cute and the hoverbike is cool so whatever it’s fine. I’m a little sad that none of the Leviathans in this were even half as scary as in the original game. Knowing these terrifying ass creatures were lurking around in different parts of the map was part of the appeal but nothing in this comes close to even the Ghost let alone the Reaper or Sea Dragon. Nothing in the original game was as annoying as the Ice Worm but it’s only in the game for about 10 minutes if you’re just headed in and out. The main story hook of Robin’s sister ended really abruptly and anticlimacticly in such a way that I genuinely didn’t even know what happened at first but the other storyline about Al-An was actually really interesting and I liked how it ended. Learning that I could play a TryHardNinja song on the in game jukebox made me fucking lose it.