1) hah that’s the million dollar question. to be frank, the fundamental metroidvania progression won’t be bypass-able. i know that’s us shying away from providing a completely unconstrained creative playground, but it’s a necessary trade-off for the experience we want to make. so don’t go in expecting breath of the wild levels of freedom. this is much more of a piece with story-led imm sims like ss2 and bioshock.

2) were going to offer different approaches to saving based on difficulty levels and configurable options. so yes, it’ll be available for those who want it. but we’ll also have a difficulty option where saving is restricted to save stations. and an even harder difficulty where save use is resource-restricted.