Best for side character depth
Hollow Knight: Silksong
4.5 feature score
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South of Midnight
4.3 feature score
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Doom: The Dark Ages
4 supporting reviews
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Side characters are a strength, giving relief, charm, pathos, and recurring interactions across Pharloom's towns and hubs.
Pros: value for money, sound design
Cons: loot system, camera behavior
Side characters earned praise for having enough interaction and backstory to avoid feeling flat.
Pros: atmosphere, voice acting
Cons: world interactivity, camera behavior
Side character depth was usually criticized, with reviewers calling supporting characters forgettable, unmemorable or impossible to care about.
Pros: environmental detail, polish
Cons: camera behavior, value for money