Game is very good for the most part with a simple but satisfying combat system making it easy to pick up and play, showing that you don't need a bunch of flashy moves and combos to make a fun and engaging gameplay loop in a character action game, unfortunately it's let down by lacklustre level design with chunks of level literally being copy-pasted several times within the same stage, long levels towards the end of that are full of insta-death bottomless pits (no checkpoints btw) and the boss fights generally suck, especially the final boss which after about an hour of struggling through I gave up on, sure being able to one-shot bosses feels incredible but it just ends up with you waiting around until enemies spawn and then you fighting with the janky lock-on, hoping it doesn't lock onto the boss before hitting the boss once.

I really wish this game would get a remaster or something that addresses these issues because I genuinely think with some tweaks this could be a top tier action game.