Outer Wilds showed me the folly of forcing my way through a game I'm not enjoying just because it's so acclaimed. What would have been a game that bored me that I just would have moved on quickly from led to me just straight up hating it. This game does not deserve that because regardless of my feelings for it, it does a lot of things right. It's a puzzle game that genuinely makes you think to figure out how it works and it doesn't force in some bad combat. Even if it isn't a setting I care about, I can see how this exploration of a solar system with diverse planets is a dream game for people. I just found the game so completely tedious. Every time I die or do something that resets the loop, having to go through launching the ship and flying back to the planet I was on is so annoying to me. It's not like it takes that long and there's auto pilot but I just hated every second I had to do that. It led to me not willing to experiment with the puzzle solving or rushing exploration because I don't know how long I have left in the loop. I'm usually pretty strict with not looking up answers for puzzles in games but the thought of another loop reset broke me down when I was already forcing my way through it. There has been a lot of time loop games the last few years and this is the only one that had me dreading it every time. I'm being overly harsh on a game that has some brilliant ingenuity to it but I really just did not enjoy it.