@LukeAlmighty everything has a half-assed "crafting" "mechanic" shoved in that usually boils down to "Collect eight gorilla testicles to get a new pair of socks".

I'm not even opposed to it in theory, but games that don't need it keep shoving it in and there's never an attempt to make the mechanic interesting or tie in meaningfully to progression. Every game implements it the same way: All enemies have materials magically spewing out of their ass and you periodically menu together eight unrelated items into something halfway useful.