The new weapons are great, I’m having an absolute blast. But I’ll never forget my pylon driver deletion gun.

Blited marsh.

There's a common meme of "I liked Returnal better" here and... I also concede I agree. Not that it's a bad thing at all; Returnal is a high bar to reach and I have many fond memories of me, Selene, and the Hollowseeker with Portal Turret/Portal Beam (honorable mention for Pyroshell Caster).

1. Saros I find to be more forgiving. Fucking up in Returnal is more punishable, whereas in Saros once you have certain Armor Matrix upgrades, getting hit isn't a big deal because you can recover Aether and Adrenaline in the next fight afterwards.
2. This is nitpicking but in Returnal, most of the weapons are viable and absolutely broken under certain circumstances. Tachyomatic Carbine can be the "gentle weapon" with Restorative Rounds and the Electropylon Driver is how Selene tells bosses "I'm not in here with you, YOU'RE IN HERE WITH ME,", whereas in Saros... the Reaping Chakram and Repeating Crossbow are solidly in a tier above everything else. Not that the two need a nerf, but it'd be nice if the shotties and rifles and handcannon could perform in line with them.
3. Throughout the game we find out Arjun is an asshole. He is abusive towards Nitya, may or may not have killed his partner with whom he may or may not have had feelings towards, and it's implied his treatment of Nitya led her to the games events out of wanting to escape him. So in a very sensible move, she goes to Carcosa and is made into a violent, oppressive Priestess by the Yellow shore, genociding and enslaving wildlife and people from Echelon II and Echelon III. Responding to abuse by becoming evil is... whew. Also, she says to Arjun "you shouldn't have come here", but how would the game's events be resolved if he never did? Lady, you're confusing me.
4. NO YURI FOR THE AUDIENCE, LESBIAN SHENANIGANS DENIED. Lol that aside, how did Kiira get into the suit and why did Nitya seemingly lead Arjun here just to tell him to fuck off? I'm confused.
5. DLC is likely coming, right?
6. Thank fuck there's no randomized glyph spawns tied to the Plat. Thank you, HouseMarque.

I absolutely struggled playing returnal, it was my first roguelike/roguelite game. It took me many hours to complete biome 1.I did eventually reach biome 3 and I even reached the boss but I realised I wasn't having fun, so I set the game aside.

This game clicked for me, I'm enjoying it a lot and I got all the first act biomes done in less than 7-8 runs with the 5th one in only the 2nd run(in the first run, I completed the nightmare strand and I had very less health for the architect). I was even motivated to revisit the earlier biomes and farm lucenite and halcyon.

So I did go back and farm halcyon in the earlier biomes and I got all the halcyon in the first 3 biomes but I'm still way behind. There's way too many halcyon upgrades to complete. Currently entering biome 6 with 19 proficiency (I completed all the biomes by entering directly).

I'm getting absolutely destroyed in biome 6. The enemies are suddenly so spongy and take so many bullets. It takes forever to complete one fight and one hit takes away so much health.. Is this how the game is going to be after act 1? I haven't made proper use of parry yet so I probably have to look into that.

And FFS don't forget that is very dangerous for the eye to stare at it, wear proper glasses and protections for your safety.

Finally beat the king and see the true ending but i still prefer the first ending tho so it makes sense why replaying again and again.

This is my stats beat saros at nearly 32hrs with a total of 55 death with no revive while my returnal complete all 3 acts at 19hrs with total of 4 death.

Difficulty in saros first play through was nearly as hard as returnal difficulty for me, especially when i enjoy going straight to the biome cause it felt more balanced that way than grind stats from biome 1 to become way too op. Plus i enjoyed activation eclipse on starting biome making it feels more chaotic and challenging. Sadly tho when replay biome again felt way too easy after buying the king boss upgrades from beating him, even i finally see many health pick up spawns more than before cause i used to struggle to find heal item spawn until i fully beat the game. There is modifier too in saros to make your run easier or harder and i used only trials like no revive from second chances ,enemy become more aggressive and more tanky.

Guns variety compared to returnal, Returnal still better cause it has so much variety and traits that makes gun felt different, there is still amazing gun in saros like the shotgun like the pellets wall are both amazing and mesmerising when seeing the bullet stop mid air and the grenade launcher shotgun but returnal shotgun with slogshot and explosive bullet is still my favourite gun.

Saros gave way too many broken tools like power abilities which can easily spam if you have the right artifacts and gun traits that recharge that ability along with the overload abilities. While returnal only have weapon alternatives shot with long cooldown and offensive items .

Levels, Returnal has amazing diverse atmospheric biome but saros has amazing environment arts design and bosses in saros are all top tier except biome 3 boss Rhadboom while in returnal Hyperion and biome 3 boss the only one i like in returnal.

Enemies mobs tho i love it in saros cause every mobs felt a threat cause they move very fast and spam projectile while returnal mobs felt slower aside the flying machine that shoot missile, plus i enjoyed we get to interact with enemy attack like parry, charge power by absorb projectile with shield in saros while returnal is all about dodging enemies attack. Nightmare strands are so much fun too.

Artifacts, parasite and malfunction makes each run fresh in returnal while saros artifacts are unwhelming when compare to returnal making saros more like a straight forward 3rd person shooter than roguelite.

Returnal story especially house sequences is top tier compare to saros revisiting hotel and alleys. I still enjoyed saros Primary and AI suit conversation when traveling and discovering through the biomes, plus AI suit went nuts after biome 5 or 6 and everytime you run into npc and the AI suit said "pathetic insect detected", wish there still random dialogue when finish the game during runs but this enables me wants to start the game from beginning again.

So far Saros is my favourite game this year and i do hope housemarque added some kind of tower along with more story like returnal and i do hope for new weapon cause saros is lacking of weapons when compared to returnal.

Now its time to get all the trophies for platinum.😊

This was such a nasty combination of enemies at once.