I'm done with this dude. I've tried like 100 or so times for Champion's Road and I just don't want to anymore. I've gotten close a couple times but I'm not interested anymore.

I think Mario games are easier than other platformers by quite a margin so I wanted to try and 100% it on my first go around, getting everything I could, but the spike in world crown is just ridiculous. Screw that. I beat all the other levels, got all the collectibles, and did all the gold flags. I don't need to beat that last level. It's making my mental state worse so I need to do what's good for me.

messes up the mechanics of the original subnautica. the whole argument that its not scary anymore is tired since its horror was clearly a byproduct of what the team was trying to make with its desolate survival and exploratory focus. Instead there are too many issues with how the game runs that it becomes hard to realize this was built from the previous game. Enemies seem to have two states either chilling there after just spawning and then whenever you are within eyesight (even if they weren't looking at you in the first place) beelining it straight for you. The cat and mouse game is gone now replaced with feral animals and the equivalents of an abusive zookeeper's stun rod. Add on to this the snowfox which seems super cool in concept but basically functions as well as any vehicle from Death Stranding. (as an aside I've never had to replace any of my vehicles across both games save for having to built 4 snowfoxes. one was my fault and carelessly crashing into things but two of them just phased through the floor after I placed them down. made the last couple hours very tedious)

Dogshit game. Levels are barren and spiraling into this loony world where compelling design is completely forgotten. The first Dark Forces didn't have many good layouts either but it hid its flaws by sticking close to the Doom design it was aping. Levels go on for way too fucking long and towards the end became worse than some of the most labyrinthine boomer shooters I've played.

Guns feel terrible. Enemies deal too much damage and overwhelm you. There is not much good mechanically about this other than going 3rd person and swinging your noodle arms around with a lightsaber. Not even going to try and play the expansion which is apparently worse than this.

TL;DR They were cooking when they made the Jill and Carlos models.

Takes the wonderful catharsis in finality from the original and transforms it into needless melodrama. Characters clashed because of their ideals poking out from their drive to survive while in this remake they feel like they are forced upon a spotlit stage to verbally spar with grandiose intention.

Also the one major frustration I had with the original, the fickle dodge move, carries over to this "improvement" making it just as frustrating to get through. A weird nitpick I had was the inability to dodge while reloading as well which just seemed silly more than anything. This became maddening coming up to the final encounters where there's a consistent armada being thrown at the player for no sensible reason (The phase 2 Nemesis fight was just a mess of poor design on Hardcore).

The removal of the choice system and 'more linear' structure didn't actually bother me that much since from what I remember the original was about as linear. The lack of a clock tower made me relieved more than anything because I think it had the weakest point in the entire game, almost like a b-sides compilation of the previous 2 RE games reviving the scrapped designs that are way more obtuse. Plus unlike much of the original, there are sections of Metroivania-ness injected here and there in this remake.

Perhaps that linearity would have bothered me more if it weren't for the shop unlocked after a playthrough. I felt a sense that it was urging me to rerun the game already to make achievement hunting easier. It's a system which I kind of like in concept more than the older RE systems of just speedrunning to get an instant win rocket gun. It feels like it forces players to progress more gradually through gaining might. It's the complete opposite of why I love rerunning REmake which had amazing controls but limited rewards. I know that getting better times is meant to be a gradual improvement but it stresses me the fuck out so I have to meticulously plan in advance.

I can't hate this game because it itches a part of me other RE's don't/can't but I can't love it because its such a nightmare when it comes to control and design