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Phoenotopia: Awakening (Switch)

This is a very high quality Zelda 2-like. The game is huge -- there's an achievement for getting to the last save point in under 4 hours, but a normal playthrough, even if you avoid all the sidequests, is probably closer to 25-30 hours? It's long.

And then the side content just seems to stretch on to infinity. I keep running into new optional areas and quests and secrets, even at 40+ hours of playtime. It kind of reminds me of Hollow Knight, in that way.

It also reminds me of Hollow Knight because it's pretty hard, especially early on. The difficulty is pretty granular though so if you're having trouble you can change certain aspects, from making basic attacks not cost stamina, to allowing you to use food from the menu instead of being forced to eat it in real-time during battle, to making the fishing minigame not screw with your controls. It's a nice approach to difficulty settings, though I've only used the one that was on by default (the food one, and frankly I need it).

I will say that the game's story, while interesting, feels very incomplete, and considering I never hear anyone talk about this game I doubt it's getting a sequel. Oh well.