You know you can start hovering out of the holes the moment you fall in right? You don't actually need to wait to hit the bottom.

A super ambitious title hampered by a soul crushing timeline passed down from on high by the Powers That Be, and then dragged through the mud for decades by nerds looking for a cheap laugh, ET has some cool ideas (context sensitive abilities that force you to pay attention to your position in an open-world environment) that may not all come together elegantly, but I'm happy they tried.