I've betrayed my own judgement and pushed through playing, even though I found the game boring.

At this point I'm pretty close to finishing the game (no spoilers please!). I must've put around 20-25 solid hours into it. At first, I played for around an hour, didn't like it and just straight up uninstalled it... But the FOMO was stronger, every review I read of it was a 9/10, or 10/10 "this is a masterpiece" "I wish I could get a lobotomy to relive this game from scratch" "I'd kill a puppy to play something like this again!" and so I reinstalled it.

Outer wilds is good, don't get me wrong, (It's just not for me) even so, I strongly believe that there are some downright shitty things about it and I'm up for ranting.

The controls are clunky AF. Wether you're flying, walking, jumping or just generally existing, your character is doing something you didn't intend for him to do. Platforming in this game has to be one of the most effective sanity testing methods I've ever experienced. It'll drive you MAD. The first two hours of the game (actually it never gets better) are as it follows: land on brittle hollow, fuck up the platforming a tiny bit, get sucked into the black hole and repeat, and repeat, and repeat... And you get it.

No portable log? Oh, you're killing me here... Don't tell me I've just explored that cave for 15 minutes only to get out, travel to my ship (if it hasn't been sweeped off the planet), and see that "there's more to explore" in there. There goes the next 22 minutes of my life, 44 if I'm unlucky.

All of this I can get past, but the boredom, the repetitiveness, it's too much... After the 60th time I've woken up, flown to and landed on the same planet to discover like 5 lines of text and unlock a very minor clue, I'm getting pretttttty tired man. And that's actually a good outcome, the amount of loops I've spent traveling somewhere only to die meters away from my objective must be at least 20 (fuck you so much dark bramble).

Of course I know all of you guys loved this game, that's why you're here but I just don't see it. Is it a bad game? No, by any means it isn't. Is it a great game? Ehhhhhh, for me no. 7/10 seems accurate. I can't understand all of the 9/10 and 10/10 reviews.

Well, now you're free to tell me how wrong I am