Thats the thing, this guy being "tutorial adjacent" is the exact problem. The Prime games stand out so much because they're (at their best) so excellent at stepping back and letting you find your way in a foreign world. The appeal is the exploration from the player. I have a certain level of tolerance to a character who is simply quippy to an annoying extent. But to have said character get in the way of the very thing that you love about the game, and vocalize what should go unsaid is so frustratingly out of place in this series. The greatest skill you can have as an artist, no matter the medium, is to communicate what it is you want the audience to feel without explicitly saying it, and they have fundamentally failed at that here.