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You know, one man's trash is another man's treasure. I'd say Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is worth playing for a lot of reasons, but I think it's got huge fundamental issues in both its combat and narrative design; it's still on the short list for most outlets' game of the year awards this year. Hades just got a sequel, and I didn't even care for the first one. For many people, those two games are just about the only roguelikes or -lites they've ever played, but I don't think they're even good ones of those; the level generation is so limited that you'll have seen all their permutations quite quickly, and the bonuses from boons just about all feel superfluous and interchangeable. Hollow Knight holds this legendary status among metroidvanias, and Silksong followed suit. I thought Hollow Knight was just fine, but I was surprised to find that this was the game with that sort of following. When facing the possibility of playing Silksong this year or about 5 other video games that came out this year, I don't think Silksong is making the cut.
But your mileage will absolutely vary. These games have hype for a reason: a lot of people love them. You might, too.
A big part of the appeal of Hollow Knight and Hades are their respective art styles. They are both genuinely gorgeous games, and it really improves the experience. I would rather open up Hades again instead of, say, TBoI for exactly that reason, despite my thinking that TBoI is the better roguelike.
Admittedly I can't bring myself to enjoy Hollow Knight at all, but that's just an issue of me disliking metroidvanias.
hades' strength is its narrative; hk's strength is its worldbuilding.
it's very difficult to stand out on pure gameplay in the 21st century.
I agree regarding Hollow Knight... It was fine. I don't really get the hype though, people would make you believe it's the best game ever made.
All of the games you listed here were pretty under hyped IMO except for perhaps Silksong.
I understand this is all subjective, but I think you're leaning toward like indie gaming hipster material with this comment...and that's my opinion.
I leaned toward games that came highly recommended that I actually played.
I'd go for CO:E33 too. Its a decent enough game but I don't understand the absolute hype it receives. Probably a 5/10 game for me.
I can answer this for you. So imagine a genre of game that you grew up playing, loved, and sunk possibly thousands of hours in. Now imagine for like 15 years they only made the most dogshit version of that genre of game. Then someone comes along and makes a decent, even passable, modern version of that game.
It's like giving dirty water to a dehydrated person. Is the water good? Fuck yeah in the moment it's fantastic. Is the water the greatest water you've ever had? Well technically no, but please don't take away the dirty water please.
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The worst part is, that decent game isn't even in the same genre. E33 is too damn heavy on parrying. Imagine if all 2000-2015 Zelda games were garbage, and Breath of the Wild was the first good one. I'm sure some OoT fans wouldn't be too thrilled, while a majority of gamers would be.
As a JRPG fan though, I concur, most JRPGs suck ass, and it's often for the most obvious, easy to fix problems like slow combat speed, or throwaway random encounter design.
I played E33 for about 4 hours. The combat system is atrocious. It feels like I'm playing a turn based RPG but with elements of Dark Souls? The almost necessity of dodging in combat made me give the game up.
I just played it on easy difficulty then it became enjoyable for me.
Was it good though? I imagine you'd be AP starved until you get the Picto for AP on hit, and then it sounds like the opposite where you can spam costly skills.
I already said in my comment that I enjoyed it?
To clarify, I meant gameplay, because you can (and a lot of people do) turn on easy mode just to ignore it and focus on everything else.
The easy mode could win battles for you automatically and most people would "enjoy" it all the same, but I hardly think anyone would love it.
Edit: The context was explicitly combat, but, I feel there's still a difference of enjoyable combat and actually engaging combat. Is parryless easy mode challenging enough?
Easy mode doesn’t mean you can ignore parrying in this game so yes I still enjoyed it.