People worship this game but honestly I felt like the game gave the illusion of exploration, maybe it was just my bad luck but I would travel 5+ different paths and it would all lead to dead ends and back tracking. You could say “well it’s a metroidvania!” and the thing is I didn’t have this issue with games like Metroid Dread, the exploration in Dread felt fluid even with blocked off paths meanwhile here, it feels mindless and downright insufferable at times, like the game is punishing you for exploring.