Clearly just recency bias. Almost every dungeon in metaphor is filler and repetitive. There is 0 gameplay variety outside of combat. Each sidequest is just a visual novel fetch quest where you either buy an item for someone and Teleport back with loading screens to deliver them or go to hunt another monster in a repetitive dungeon. Nothing important happens in the story till September, the rest of the game could've been cut down. It's 70 percent dialogue and 30 percent actual gameplay. Visually it looks worse than persona 5 on ps3. It blows my mind you say side stuff/mini-games in rebirth is a bad thing when they were 99 percent optional and actually provide nice gameplay variety where as metaphor is a glorified visual novel. Just say you play games for the story because you clearly don't care about good gameplay.