This game's somewhat underwhelming in my opinion. It looks like something I would like and does start off promising in the first half. It has some of the best environmental design I've seen for a 2D game made in pixel art, decently memorable characters with varied and unique designs, a world that seems to be a mixture of Mother 3, NieR: Automata, and Futurama with a Japanese or Eastern code of paint, and decently fun dungeon and puzzle design as well as a nice cooking system and some good boss fights.

Unfortunately, it's everything after New Dam City (Chapters 3-5) that prevents the game from being as good as it could have been. I won't spoil anything but the story basically looses focus on what it's doing due to a specific character (hint: he's on the side of the promo art) that becomes more involved, resulting in many unanswered or unexplored questions by the end, the world feeling underdeveloped due to barely learning anything about it despite what the beginning presents, and the ending being rather unsatisfying. I still give it a 3/5 as the gameplay does remain consistent throughout, which is good but it's not enough to save the second half. Also one minor gripe I have personally: why did New Dam City need to have 3 chapters? The last two were nothing but dungeons with some plot developments and the first being the longest in the game (in a game with only 8 chapters). They all could have been 1 chapter, allowing for more cities or locations to be possibly explored.

So overall, it's still a good game, but it could have been much more and is one of the more disappointing games I've played.