carol sturka is the type of character that could've been done 1000 different ways, and all of those ways are the ones where anyone other than seehorn is playing her. those different ways also, importantly, would have been significantly worse. and the whole damn show is carried on her back!

Like yeah Tarantino's total filmography isn't exactly looking into the light of The Lord but saying Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill aren't great is pure cope. What the hell are you talking about

The central post is dumb as bricks too but there's something special about saying shyamalan's worst is better than Tarantino best. Like just actual pure insanity. You could bottle and sell it

I really think this game needed one more gameplay loop. Some light survival mechanics would have made a lot of sense in this world, maybe some puzzle solving, *something* to make traversing the world less obviously limited in the way you engage with it.

Once you recognize this, the game becomes you just rushing to grab all the items and fight only the enemies you need to. The combat is good, but enemy variety becomes really limited. Considering how a lot of Act 3 kicks the difficulty into high gear, repetition makes sense, but it destroys the pace.

It's been said a lot how Act 3 really loses momentum, and there are a lot of reasons for that, but I think one of the biggest is just that the game only has two things to do. You fight a bunch of enemies, you watch a few cutscenes, then you fight more enemies, more cutscenes, more enemies, more c-

Not that there hasn't been positives, but this may be the first game I've ever played where I truly dreaded actually engaging with bosses because the quality feels like a coin toss.

I just think it's too much! I've really not generally been enjoying the combat, which is crazy considering "hollow knight for real gamers only" should be directly up my alley. But fundamentally I think the design encounters feel really boring and fairly cheap