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I played Crosscode recently. I found it on the profile of someone who had many hours on a game I like.

Things I like:

• Beautiful beautiful pixel art. Seriously it looks so good 🥺... I wish I could draw like that... or draw at all for that matter

• Pretty fun combat. It's top down, melee/shooter thing and there's this mechanic where you get better loot if you keep a streak of enemies going so it's fun to go on a rampage starting a fight with everything. Health regens when you end combat. Mobs don't attack unless you attack them first.

• Fun puzzles although they get harder and harder

Things I didn't like:

• Hard to understand story. It has a video game within the game, so I never really understood what was real and what was part of the game.

• Single player MMO nature: the world is just hugeeee and there's so many fetch quests and items you use for trading. I eventually started caring less and less because none of the rewards I'd find through exploring were something I could immediately use. I would have loved it so much more if it was a zelda-like affair with limited dungeons and a smaller world.

• Difficulty: apparently the puzzles and combat gets too hard later. At least I was told. I never stuck around long enough to see that. I stopped right after the second dungeon.