It's an original take on the city building. It's also very pretty and relaxing. However, it didn't hook me and I got bored pretty quickly. I prefer city builders with more depth.

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This took two tries for me. On the first one I kinda got bored after the first divine beast. On the second try, years later, it clicked for me. You have to be proactive in perusing things that are fun to you, I didn't get that at the beginning.

The game feels like a big world/box full of toys. The level of thought put into making everything react to interaction is quite amazing. The story is not very interesting to me but it's okay that way. Gives me more room to explore Hyrule on my own, without feeling like I need to progress the main quests.

I would give Nintendo so many moneys, if they sold some way to play this at a higher framerate/resolution. Maybe the next console after the Switch, fingers crossed.

Didn't grab me, for whatever reasons

Cute but didn't hold my interest... Also I feel like the controls where pretty hard to pick up.

Super nice tactical game. Nowadays I prefer something like Fire Emblem though, that adds a metagame to the turn based battles.

Did not enjoy, but might be me.
Game is well made but I don‘t like how metroidvainiay the map feels. I really suck at remembering what is where and then I have to look up a guide.
Also don't find the puzzles particularly intuitive. This also forces me to look things up constantly.
And following a guide ain’t that much fun to me.
I'm generally not the biggest puzzle fan and when you add the stress from the zombies on top it just makes it worse.
Not for me.

5 hours in, I'm surprised by how much I'm enjoying it.
15 hours in I'm getting tired of watching every animation and hearing every voice line for the 20th time.

Might be me, as I've never had a turn based RPG really grab me. But I'm loosing interest. I've also noticed me mentally checking out of battles.

Having trouble getting into this, for the first time, in 2023. I feel like it's one of those games where you need to look up a guide.

Might be good with more time, but I just got bored of it pretty quickly

If it wasn't for my nostalgia, I would consider this pretty much unplayable. Soundrack is great though. But the gameplay is so slow and repetitive. Can't enjoy this, as an adult, unfortunately.

Chill and atmospheric game. You manage your vehicle. But I lost interest pretty quickly.

The writing surprises me for a 20 year old Mario game. It's funny and surprising. The characters are good, art style and music too.
I've lost interest after a while but it might be more due to me not being very into RPGs.

When I play a game from a genre I usually don't enjoy, thats high praise. With Hollow Knight I'm not just playing it, but really enjoying it on the Steam Deck. The sounds and visuals alone are so enjoyable. The gameplay, progression, level design is top notch, too. Only thing I'm afraid of is it might become too hard for me later.
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I kinda lost interest at some point. Progress was getting slower, I couldn't remember the spots to revisit. Metroidvanias might not be for me, after all.

Might sound 200 years old but I found it too stressful...

Amazingly well done. I look forward to getting back into it.