about 5 hours in, don't really want to play this anymore.

it's like the sort of referential mish-mash i would have thought up when i was like 8 - borrows very transparently from the nintendo-gamer canon (ww, botw, alttp, mother 3, probably nes dq/ff, gacha games, etc...), but nothing ever fits together right. i feel like i'm being forced to wade through someone else's fangame, where like i can respect all of the moving parts (esp the artstyle which it nails) but it just feels like it was made in such a way that i was never supposed to interact with it except from afar - like all of these things have the right spirit to it, but were compiled together carelessly. engine is just-busted-enough, puzzles so far are overloaded and pretty uninteresting, and the game doesn't seem to be going anywhere. that and then like the reviews seem to be suggesting the worst is yet to come - i think i'm out