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Largely more of the same as it's predecessor, but it's slightly better by focusing more on the stealth and being significantly shorter. Some of the characters were super fucking annoying.
Get's stale in the first 5 minutes. It's clear to see why this is the most divisive in the franchise, there is nothing to do here, especially with the servers being as dead as they are, the missions being as repetitive, and the environments looking, just awful.
Definitionally a 6/10 game, which is such a shame because it starts so fast. The opening is phenomenal, and the initial exploration through the first town gets you thinking: 'Has a Hollow Knight clone finally managed to reach the peaks of that?' The answer is no, but the combat does reach some string like sections where it becomes pure instinct and there's 3 people attacking you and you block, parry and jump and its beautiful. But so much backtracking! And there's 0 speed to how you run, so the majority of the game isn't exploring the interesting world, or marvelling at the art style, it's running through screens you've seen 19 times. Shame.