The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales

I would like to highlight what I personally enjoyed the most, which I haven’t seen discussed nearly enough: the worldbuilding and narrative.

Puzzles range from trivial to mildly tricky and the game does a good job of guiding the player through the mechanics of new abilities and tools you will use to solve them, though the dialogue when traveling around often hints to the player through out-loud musing and I could see it being annoying for some.

There's a large toolkit at your disposal between different weapons and powers and the addition of a secondary companion controllable through the right analog stick pads some depth onto a combat system that might otherwise be a little too familiar.

Soundtrack is very high quality, not on a level of a game like octopath traveler but still up there with some final fantasy games.

The visuals are stunning, the hd-2d style is probably more a matter of preference at this point, but if it fits your taste, it's probably one of the best looking hd-2d game currently available.

**Oh and I play this on my PC and SteamDeck, both are perfect.