Repetitive Gameplay

If you enjoy this game, you're not playing it for the gameplay, but to explore and look at things. It all follows a formula of going to one planet, collecting things and upgrading things, then moving to the next. Sometimes you get some space battles or something interesting in between, but they're more or less like side quests and not the central objective of the game.

Animals don't really do anything. They only drop items that don't feel rewarding to pick up.