So I started playing Metro 2033 Redux on PS4, having bought it sometime last year in a sale and just never having gotten around to it. Hrmmm....it's...not great. I get the feeling it's a very watered-down adaptation of a book that is far more complicated than what is being presented, and whilst it has some interesting themes and tense moments in gameplay, it feels buggy and unfinished. It can't quite seem to decide whether it wants to be a Doom-style FPS or a survival horror, and the end result is that it doesn't do anything particularly well.
Pushing through the frontline was awful...I opted for the stealth route after being slaughtered a few times, which was far more satisfying than killing everyone, but the checkpoints were spaced too far between which involved a lot of repetition, and what followed that...that has to be the WORST on-rails shooting I have ever played. The controls were bollocks, I couldn't see a damn thing through the blood and explosions and lights after a while, and the turret kept overheating. It was a horrible juggling act that almost made me quit the game outright.
Love the stereotypical Russian accents, though.
Finished the Grand Travels map in Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition on Switch. All that's left for me to do now is the Lorule Map, and a hard mode Legend Mode run for missing Skulltulas so I can clear the Rewards maps...that's likely going to take me another week or two, but eh. I suppose I could go for the remaining medals, but to get every Fairy skill I'd need some 8000 levels in fairy food, which is...a lot of grinding. I don't really see the point. I'll be happy just to experience all the content the game has to offer and then come back at a later date for a Hero mode run of the story and maybe a little more grinding.