I figured it’s more like evil that resides somewhere. Like “there is a resident evil in this house”, a presence. Then again I’m not native English so what do I know :)

Edit: nevermind, I misread your comment. Yeah I don’t reckon they are necessarily evil.

Axiom Verge 1 is a great metroidvania. I also tried 2, but it didn’t click with me at all. Cave Story is great as well. Dead Cells, but that’s more of a rogue lite game. Binding of Isaac is also one of my favorites, but it’s a top down rogue like.

Yeah same! I tried to romance Shadowheart but when she wanted to kill you-know-who, I had to fight her :( And yeah second playthrough I knew the mechanics better as well so the acts were more of a breeze than a hurricane :D

As a plus side, I noticed I missed some areas and quests, so that was nice too!

I’m on my second playthrough. It’s the very first single player game I’ve ever played twice in a row, just after finishing it the first time :) I wanted to play the bad guy but couldn’t do it. I love the companions too much to be evil :)

My feeling is that AI is the new solution looking for too many problems to solve. I had the same feeling with microservices, big data, block chain, NoSQL databases and all those other hype driven development things. Different products and solutions exist to solve their respective problems. I notice that AI (notably since ChatGPT and related) are pushed in all directions.