IIRC the developers at respawn said metroid prime was a big inspiration.

They get some unique dialogue/scenes during it, but I'm pretty sure that's it, so I'd recommend just going with your favourite.

Assuming you mean Claustrophobia, Nope, no party members. I beat her around level 8-9~ I think, and that was mainly through staying away from her melee range and using ranged attacks.

Yeah, the only game not officially in english is horizon, and that has it's english release date set for january of next year.

I feel like the trails series would be a good candidate for the bee-lining series. The NPC thing is neat, but also drains momentum from the game(it can also become very tedious at times), and I would recommend just not doing it.

The fact that they only needed ~1000 people to call in and email to get their way is actually pretty crazy. There are more people on some of the Discord servers I'm in that could equal their weight, and some of these are just podcast fandoms.