This game would be a much better experience on controller with a single change that should be very simple to implement.

[GoopEnjoyer420]

For the love of god, please, please make the item selection outline move to your equipped item slot with the item you're equipping. Not for armor, just for your hand. Any item used from the inventory that also has to be held in your hand before use really sucks to use because you gotta scroll through potentially your entire inventory twice to use it. You're moving to it, equipping, moving back to your equipped items, and then finally using the item if you didn't overshoot moving one way or the other. It's not the worst thing in the world when you're exploring, but doing this **** in combat feels B A D.

I would love to add Willow to the roster of characters I regularly use, but I'm just not willing to put myself through doing the above constantly to collect embers, plus one more delve into the inventory to equip the embers for use. It's too much hassle too often in a game that moves this quick, and I don't think it has to be. Wolfgangs dumbells and iirc Maxwells Codex Umbra both suffer the same unweildiness.

I could see this causing issues with having too many controls to fit within the 4 d-pad slots, but you could potentially make it possible to use these items without actually putting them in your hand like playing a pan flute. Or, in a similar vein, there could be be a d-pad option to equip AND use the item at the same time without moving the selection outline. You'd have to move it to use the item again if you stopped, but it would still cut down on time spent navigating the inventory while half blindly trying to kite.

 

Pls, Klei, pretty pls.