Missed backer opportunity due to ignorance

I used to be that same kind of person. Seeing footage of Dust: An Elysian Tail had me super hyped up because the Metroidvania format in combination with fluid combos had me excited. But all that happened since buying the game was that I realized those aren't really the sort of things that drew me to SotN anyway and it doesn't make it a better game. If anything, they tend to bog the game down for me. If you add combos to your game, then you tend to have to make your enemies tankier so your encounters last longer so you can actually make use of those combos. But that just sort of draws out enemy encounters, when what I really want to do is explore the environment.

And so much focus in design is put on the combo system that the gameplay largely feels limited to it. In Igavanias I like the variety of flashy tools I have to use. Different weapons, different weapon skills, different command moves, different subweapons. But playing Dust, these things are a lot more sparse, and it feels like every encounter is just doing the same flashy button mashy combos followed by the occasional dodge roll. It's just not nearly as fun as I thought it'd be.

Nothing against Dust, it's actually a pretty well made impressive game. But it's not all I hyped it up to be.