walking simulators have their place, but they get too much critical love because modern game journalists are dumber than pigeons and base their entire review on the mediocre story and forget that video games are supposed to be an interactive media with a loss condition or they're not games anymore. They're just movies that require you to touch the next flag to progress.
Seriously, watch the youtube video of a games journalist trying to solve the TUTORIAL of cuphead paired next to a pigeon in a science experiment trying to navigate a block puzzle to reach food. The Pigeon beats the journo.