I believe The Beatles: Rock Band came the closest to being perfect. Eveything about that game was just beautifully done and the only things missing was Pro Drums, an option for Keys, and a few more Beatle songs (Hey Jude, Strawberry Fields Forever, Yesterday etc. etc.)
Outer Wilds is one of the more interesting games to come out in recent memory, but personally I just didn’t like the
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fairly tight (for me) time limit. I like to do things at a slower pace for a variety of reasons, and I’d love to have a way to change the time scale so that things don’t happen in just 20-something minutes.
I know it theoretically gives you infinite time to explore and do stuff, but that one cycle is always ~20 minutes, and that’s what I’d love to be able to slow down.
Funnily enough, from my perspective the 22 minute limit is what allows you to take your time. It makes you stop and think about what you’ve just explored, take a deep breath, and move on to something else that interests you. Otherwise, you might have just nonstop blasted through way too much information without any time to actually digest and understand what you discovered.
I liked it and some of the concepts in it are super interesting… But it does feel kind of janky and unpolished at times. I kind of think it’s both an overrated and an underrated game because of this.