Somewhere in here hides my ideal video game, but at this moment it is fundamentally broken, and a soulslike for some reason. Would definitely work much better as an action adventure game with different combat, even if elements of it are not bad at all.

The designs are just so fantastic. It is all about walking around and seeing insanely cool thing, or a giant creature that you can just get close to and interact with. But then the actual gameplay is just hot garbage. You climb onto giant enemies after slashing their legs and they spin around, leaving you having to spin the camera nauseatingly because you need to dodge at the same time as attacking. Then there are these flashes coming out of them which are completely glitched and extend to infinity. There are also event triggers for an underwater sections where you're supposed to get grabbed by one of the awesome, giant robo snakes, and sometimes it just wouldn't put me close enough to one of the oxygen-regen stations for me to survive, like it would the first time. It's just broken, and it takes so long to get back to that spot.

I cannot express how sad I am about this. It is heart crushing how cool elements of this game are, but it is genuinely unplayable for me. Even now, after giving up twice, there is still some will in me to keep going. I'm gonna have to actively stop myself, and watch some playthrough of it. It's not gonna be the same as encountering these creatures on my own, but I cannot stand how awful this game is. Playing it just breaks my heart.