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Anyone else been playing this? I'm about 5 hours in, 46% Map/40% Items. Really did not dig it for the first hour, hour and a half, but it's been getting consistently better since then. I made some mistakes at the start going to the water area first, which felt bad since I had basically no abilities, and I even missed the water ability right at the start of that area, so I got stuck in a bunch of places I had to load my save to get out of. Thankfully, the save and quit functionality in this game is great, so I kept all my progress, but I wish it had been designed so I couldn't screw myself over like that. Anyway, once I started getting more powers, the game got much better. Hack is pretty fun, and it's neat seeing what it does to various enemies, though it's a little annoying that you have to prioritize leveling it up to explore everywhere. Every ability feels pretty good, and the game's great at coming up with fairly unique abilities IMO. Where the game really gets great is when you start getting more drone-related powers. I think some of them were in the first game, but they're so much fun! There was even a boss in drone form! Totally wild stuff.

Other aspects - storywise, I'm not generally as into it so far as I was with the first game. The mysteries aren't as compelling, and it doesn't have impactful lines, like DEMON, ATHETOS SAY, KILL! The art is solid, and I'm kinda glad they took away the character portraits? AV1's protagonist was kinda hideous in the portraits, and AV2 had the same ugly portraits in the first trailer, so it's neat that those got axed. The glitchiness level isn't as high, which is a shame, but the area design is probably a bit better in general. It feels real open ended, like you always have a ton of options where to go. Seeing bosses just hanging out as you go through areas is kind of amazing and feels unlike anything I've seen in any other game I've played, though I'm sure it's been done before.

The last thing I did is the part where (actual spoilers) your main Arm takes over your body and forces you to be a drone. Got up to the power that lets me transform into a human again, but with a badass look now. That section was awesome, and cranked my fondness for the story way up. Scripted segments in Metroidvanias can be fucking incredible, and the way they did that one was super cool. Loved it.
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