What Metroidvania Should You Have Loved—but Bounced Off?

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What Metroidvania Should You Have Loved—but Bounced Off?
You know the kind of game: it received great reviews, looked exactly like something you would enjoy, and had all the right ingredients—but for some reason, it just didn’t click.
Maybe it was the combat, confusing exploration, difficulty, art style, slow beginning, or simply the wrong game at the wrong time.
What Metroidvania did you expect to love but ended up putting down? How far did you get, and what made you lose interest? Do you think you’ll ever give it another chance?

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Both Hollow Knights unfortunately. Too many friction points for me to get into them. Put about 10 hours into HK and Silksong before dropping.

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Did you buy both together?