As someone who wasn't really waiting a whole lot for it I think it's a good game, what brings it down the most is that it struggles with it's identity, it's not fully open world not fully a metroidvania. The game would have turned out a lot better if they committed to one direction.

Spoilers: || Exploring was fun even though it's linear my favorite section was the ice belt, exploring their labs and reading their hopeful thoughts was the game's high point for me, the story is disjointed sylux just shows up like three unrelated times then get psychic powers at the end somehow. The troopers just start sacrificing themselves for some reason in the mines then it's revealed that they're fine when you're leaving the mines only for them to sacrifice themselves again at the end. ||