Primal Planet

Pros

• Primal Planet - I finished 100% Primal Planet and thoroughly enjoyed it! He added more map markers and some other QoL improvements. In a couple more patches, it could be a full on banger imo!
• Hopefully gonna finish both of them today and start Primal Planet tomorrow, at least that’s the goal.
• This is a rather beautiful pixel art metroidvania with a prehistoric cave man and dinosaur theme. The reception has been really good but there have been complaints about the map which is unfortunately following the trend of indie metroid...
• In terms of combat, this is definitely the standout aspect of Primal Planet, which I largely attribute to the aforementioned ecosystem mentality the game does its best to emulate.
• The game’s flora and fauna are arguably two of its strongest aspects and selling points as the experience attempts to emulate the real thing, with the creatures you will come across behaving like actual entities that live and hunt separa...

Cons

• Was really enjoying Primal Planet, but got soft locked by doing some unintended platforming to get to a specific area too early. No response from the dev, oh well I wasn’t really expecting one.
• I also finished Primal Planet, which was fun though stumbled a bit when it came to its survival mechanics.
• A metroidvania that manages to tell a nice, emotional story with no words. While each individual element is fairly simple, the combat, platforming, skill progression and crafting blend together nicely to create an engaging, balanced expe...
• Now, while all of this sounds really cool, and as much as I appreciated the game’s attempt to incorporate survival elements into the mix, most of said elements ended up being much more surface level than you’re initially led to believe,...
• Finally, the companion system that has you recruiting villagers to help you with your battles was very much welcome but came off as somewhat undercooked since, while there are a few different comrades to accompany you, I didn’t really un...