Grounded 2 wobbles while walking a line between frustration and brilliance

I've had a mixed acquisition with Grounded 2. It flip-flops betwixt brilliance and frustration. The magic of surviving successful an insect kingdom that's been made monolithic astir me, by virtuousness of my being shrunk, is perfectly inactive here. I volition ne'er tyre of watching spiders the size of cars prowl astir the blades-of-grass wood astir me, oregon bees buzz similar helicopters above. And present there's much everything: much insects, much world, much variety, much story, much nuance to its systems, much things to make. In each way, Grounded 2 has widened and deepened - sometimes rather literally. There's a overmuch clearer consciousness Obsidian knows the crippled it's making present and what the assemblage wants from it. But with this added game-framework besides comes busywork and a consciousness of grind, and a feeling of sometimes being held backmost from doing what you truly privation to do.

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