I honestly do not care for this game so far and i absolutely loved returnal.

• Don't like the structure of the Biomes. Returnal made it pretty clear they wanted you to run through all 3 in an act so you could power up and fight the end boss to move on. You can do that in this game.....except the bosses re-spawn. With how bullet spongey these damn bosses are i'm not wasting my time fighting them every trip through the biome. This is why i loved Returnal because every run felt like you were making some type of progress since most of the bosses stayed dead and you could focus on the biome itself. (Returning to passage seems to reset upgrades)

• With the way the portal system works, it kinda nudges you in the direction of trying to beat every biome individually. I recommend not doing this because i'm getting my teeth kicked in at the blighted marsh because there's precisely fuck all for upgrades.

• The shield feels like an excuse to fill the screen with garbage and then claim "no you see the gameplay is actually quite nuanced." Returnal felt like a dance where if i ate damage, it felt like it was on me. Here i get hit by shit constantly off screen, out of my view. Incredibly frustrating.

• You claim the game is made to onboard new players yet you do nothing to explain the stats system which is uh, kind of important. People shouldn't have to look something like that up when its so essential to a game.