Best dating sim Ive played. Ending felt weak though, excited for DLC. I love monster girls <3

Puzzles are fun to complete even if most of them are pretty easy. Dialogue is annoying and grandiose for what is essentially a wall-e plot. Reminds me of Superliminal (for better or for worse).

Cool and charming art, but the gameplay never hooked me and I dropped it out of boredom/frustration. Feels like a mobile game, probably more fun if youre bored on the bus.

Vibe is spooky but exploring the map is so fucking tedious, I do not want to continue it at all.

this game made me think i hated metroidvanias. atmosphere is cool, but moving around (the thing youll do the most) is so grueling. ive tried to beat this game multiple times but i just cant take it anymore.

2020

Soundtrack is SO GOOD, and the ending made me cry hard af. Combat system was alright, interesting at first but I kinda ignored the emotion matchups because fights arent really that hard. The RPG section dragged on for too long imo.

Sometimes the hardest part about this game are the controls, its satisfying when you get the hang of them though. Also I want Samus to step on me.

Animated pixel art was peak pokemon

BEAUTIFUL, honestly my nostalgia brain remembered the gamecube one looking this good (it was good for its time). Loved exploring, music is sick, combat is meh sometimes (definitely the easiest bosses of any metroid game I've played). I think every robot/mech/super suit character needs a morph ball.

Probably the most "metroid" metroid experience. Some aspects feel dated (I HATE jumping) but its such a compelling vibe.

I want to like this more than I did, the movement is REALLY fun when you get it down, you can get so fast! But everything else about this game causes so much friction, sluggish performance (switch), many small bugs that destroy your flow, and a level design that asks you to stop and interact with 100000 things when you just want to keep going. You can ignore most of the distractions in the level but it feels kinda bad, especially since I dont feel very excited by the idea of going through them and completing all the tasks. I also disliked the powers that become a whole little side quest to use, torches and magnets were my least favorite.

The art style is not my favorite, but I respect it for trying. Some of the music is good but it gets repetitive. I think this game couldve benefited for a few more months of polish, I died to a boss and it spawned me in the air so I fell instantly until my health was gone, and the final boss had me phasing through the ground on the penguin surf section. Hopefully they patch this, but the bugs impact the experience too much.

Deceptively complex, I cant stop playing.