I had one a while ago where I searched "what chemical element boils at 70 degrees C" and the Google AI search result proudly stated "water boils at 70 degrees C"

A lot of this would be tricky to fix through patches and things though, or at least a lot of work. The big thing that feels like it would be a simple fix for me is giving the Seikret a manual jump button. The number of times I have had to hop off it to jump down a small ridge myself is just silly.

It was really jarring that first HR hunt when Alma was like "let's hit it with a paintball". What are you talking about? Why? I didn't have to do that any other time mulitple of the same monster appeared, the map just told me which one was the target. Really weird.

That felt like a really thematic balance between the old games' "scrub the map areas until you spot the monster then keep hitting it with paintballs every five minutes" and Rise/Wilds' "oh yeah that thing you've only seen once before is right here with all its movements in real time".

I've only just hit HR but resonate with a lot of this. One thing I really miss from World is the tracking; I really liked having to find a few scrapes and footprints and whatnot before the Monster gets marked on the map, at least the first half a dozen times you hunt a particular monster.

I look forward to hearing about the Metroidvanias as you go! A genre I keep meaning to play a few new games in, so keep me posted with any recommendations.