My big gripe about Returnal is they desperately WANT you to go melee combat. They have so many mechanics to drag you into melee. But there's a bunch of problems:
1. For the first ~5 hours of the game, you don't even have a melee weapon.
2. Melee is boring. It's a single button, no combos, no block.
3. The camera is far too close to make melee work - you can't see shit.
4. Melee is dangerous. You WILL suffer damage. And the health boosts are tiny.
Result: melee is always a lose.
Tom Forsyth /
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