>>249405440It walks a fine line
The animations/combat/story aren't that great, there's a good amount of busy work in a tutorial that isn't the best (basically following the story till the 3rd layer) to get to the good part.
What it does well is the survival aspect where you need to use your limited inventory and resources (including saves) to get around (if you starve you can't climb/fast travel so you are probably dead) and how you have to account for the curse of the abyss amidst all that.
It's very easy to forget a few things and get your save stuck down there with too many valuables to let go of. But that's where the game kinda shines when you are forced to try different routes to get the hell out of there when you are out of food, all your tools are about to break and you're close to hunger.
Needless to say the best skills are most of the time survival related ones, IE being able to carry more weight/more crafting recipes etc...
>>249405841Agreed on that end, even just a bit of polish in most sections (combat/cutscenes/animations) would have gone a long way to improving the overall feel.
