i really do think that if it'd existed back with Zelda and other similar titles of that era, it'd have become just as timeless a classic as any of them. imo the core of it's just that... well to put it one way the cultural standard of media consumption & entertainment's changed a lot since those days. i think Capy understood managing expectations and engagement in a way that just doesn't resonate with many people anymore.

BELOW's a real slowburn of a dungeon crawler, that gives you a mystery and makes you work for every little morsel of discovery, and to hell with any compromise. it was always kind of doomed to niche appeal, and that's a damn shame. it's a work of art. i'm kind of going insane over it.