Loving Saros. Completely addicted.
Lemme preface that I was also hooked on Returnal so I knew where my expectations lay. But, I'll be honest, it didn't start out like that. I bought Returnal upon release because, at the time, I was on a huge roguelike kick and Returnal was advertised as such. But, initially, I played for 10 min and immediately put it down and stayed away because the supposed difficulty and what the game seemed to demand from you was way more than I expected. I didn't touch it for over 6 months before I decided to give it another shot and man, for some reason, it just clicked. Hook, line, and sinker.
But man, Saros, is just as addicting for me, if not more. Especially after a handful of necessary unlocks from the skill tree, as well as your armory, my runs got smoother and smoother. And I love how as progress inn the story and unlocks, the difficulty progresses with you but not a huge spike. Just enough to get a really good challenge playing standard.
I'm pretty bummed to see the negative reviews and the articles punching down on the game, basing off it's sales. I understand this is really more of a niche type of gameplay. I've seen about 50/50 love/hate for the game. And not truly hate but more of "gave a go and it wasn't their shtick"
I truly hope this doesn't deter the devs from creating more of what they love and expanding further with their future endeavors.