Really cool pixel art but everything else was lacking. I played on the switch and it seemed kinda buggy, portions of the game that were just missing soundtrack, and sometimes the soundtrack would just loop endlessly. The random rhythm game portions felt unnecessary and sometimes just didnt have any music at all. The minigames didn't feel like they actually mattered since there was pretty much no penalty for messing up, which made it feel like they were just tacked on to extend gameplay. Overall left pretty underwhelmed, story was just OK.

I was pretty invested during the beginning of the game, doing all the exploring and side quests, until I slowly realized that I was not having that much fun. Eventually I got tired of fighting the same zombies and ogre-minibosses so I just started speedrunning trying to get the story which I barely had any investment in. I was pretty interested in Baldur in the beginning but then he just vanishes for like 80% of the game. The rest of the game felt like fetch quests. There were some cool action cutscenes and while watching them I couldn't help but think to myself "Man it'd be cool if I could do this in gameplay instead of just button mashing attacks."

In the end its still a AAA game so there's quality there, but the design is mega flawed. So ultimately pretty forgettable.

Indie horror of the year for me, what a stunning game. Nice blend of new and old survival horror mechanics. The first person segments feel extra cool since most of the game is top down.

I'll have to relook at some things to fully grasp the story since it's a lil ambiguous, but I was very invested. Beat it on survival difficulty and it felt just right. Never found the grenade launcher tho lol

Only gripe is the inventory system. Because you usually want a gun+healing+tool, you don't really have that much space for key items. Which causes a lot of backtracking cause you have to keep going to the locker and storing stuff.