The game has aim assist for controller, so if you want to maintain that console feel, that’s okay.
Personally I find dodging and shooting to be easier with WASD and mouse. So that’s my go to set up. I think it’s odd playing with the aim-assist with the controller, honestly. Once I settled with the Kb/M, that really stuck with me.
It really is one of my favorite games.
Blind or not, the secret characters are pretty ridiculously difficult to unlock. Even if you know how to do it, it’s a completely different story from doing it yourself. You just have to play it to get better, unlock a ton of items and weapons one by one through repetition.
It is repetitive once you get used to the room layouts, so you can certainly start to anticipate enemy spawns, some rooms I know with my eyes closed which enemies spawned where. I am looking forward to seeing the new rooms and and things they are introducing in the new update.
I can talk on and on about this game… just don’t know how to fashion a review in Steam’s 8000 character limit. I would want to keep it relatively spoiler free, of course. Once I finally get down to writing it, I guess I will make something work.
Oh, by the way, Hollow Knight is coming out with a huge free update in August too… that’s going to be exciting as well…
I realize I didn’t answer your question. Your experience is probably best if played blind and discovering things on your own. But there are a couple of things that are not really intuitive to do or to find, trial and error is okay if you plan to spend a lot of time in this game, because the runs are fairly lengthy. My runs are about an hour each, maybe a little bit shorter, when I was running through the entire game.
But the repetition and improving your skills is so important to getting better for the end game.
By the way, my Steam hours are inaccurate… I played this game at least 300 hours up to this point… I was playing a ton offline for weeks on end… I didn’t know at the time that playing in offline mode doesn’t register your hours…