This game captivated me with it's atmosphere and art direction. It's really tense and quite terrifying at times. The pre-rendered backgrounds and set camera angles really do the job. The music and sound design are wonderful too. That being said, I really don't like metroidvanias. I get their appeal, but they don't work for me. Running around, getting lost, missing crucial things, revisiting the same locations over and over again - not really my thing. Once I started using a guide I started to have much more fun, but I couldn't shake the feeling that I'm missing part of the experience by doing that. Hence the 3.5 star rating.