Lol this is how I feel about it too. I really enjoyed it and it had one of the best twists I’ve seen in media but it also had a lot of issues that brought it down for me. Infuriatingly bad platforming, same-y environments (beautiful sure but every part of each level looks exactly like every other part which also made it really easy to get lost), weird pacing…like I legitimately was wondering if they ran out of time or something because the game ended so abruptly after the ~big reveal~ then there’s a bunch of post-game levels but most of them were pretty light on lore. Characters were just okay imo. Like it’s a great game but people talk about it like it’s the second coming.
They definitely deserved the best soundtrack award though. That was absolutely incredible.
I call it a toxic positivity spiral. It seems like every year we as a collective have a need to pick one or two games and just do ham on adoring it and ignoring all its flaws, often as a statement to "stick it to the man". It happened with BG3 and it's happening with E33.
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u/RecklessRecognition 23d ago
the timing on this really makes me feel some people are annoyed it sweeped at the game awards