@justin258 said:
The map isn't horrendous, it's pretty good. Maybe you're looking at it the wrong way? Everything you see is something you can stand on, a door, or something you can pick up. The only reason I can think of it being "horrendous" is if you can't think of it in an abstract sort of way - it cuts all the bullshit, it doesn't show anything in the way of visual markers, just the layout, which is what makes it good as far as I'm concerned.
But it doesn't show things you can stand on, unless you just mean the floors of the map. And I'm pretty sure it only shows the doors that require keys. Regardless, almost all of the secrets aren't in main parts of the map, but rather off in secluded "islands" of the map that don't have communicated entry points, thus where ceaselessly scouring the map comes into play. At least for the way I visualize things, 3D maps are trash. Floors overlap all the time (as is the explicit goal of floors of a building), making it necessary to rotate the map in all sorts of odd, inscrutable angles just to see where you actually are or where you're going, so on and so forth. Floor plan type maps are infinitely better always, except at looking cool, which I'll admit the maps in this game do well.
And yeah, I immediately upgraded my suit to show the collectibles, but I find the map so unusable that it actually doesn't even help me really at all. I played the second level over to find the stuff I didn't find on my initial run through and it took me probably over a half an hour to navigate to the exit again after I finally got everything, which took even longer. I guess I'm just profoundly fucked in some sort of spacial understanding, since nobody else seems to have an issue. The collectibles highlight the problem, but none of the layouts in general actually have made much sense to me. As a result I feel stupid and lost the whole time I play it, which has been something of a trend this year, and the main reason I haven't finished Hyper Light Drifter.
Which is all a real bummer since I otherwise love playing this game. The smart person in me says that I should probably just step the difficulty down to normal and not give a shit about upgrading my weapons since I'd probably be fine, but the stubborn person in me wants to beat the game on Ultra-Violence and knows I probably would have a lot of trouble without upgrading my weapons, suit, and stats.
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