I have been hearing and seeing this game so much that I was expecting things about it I couldn't even fathom. Nonetheless, the aesthetics and gameplay did live up to my anticipation, however the confusing maps and navigation, along with a plethora of unnecessary backtracking - not those you see in a metroidvania, but plain walking back and forth fetching items - made the experience a little harder to put up with than I was waiting for. On a sidenote, the new companions are REALLY very interesting but there is little to nothing of development of them in the main story, which felt very disappointing to me.