After 4 playthroughs of this game, including a 0% run, I couldn’t sugarcoat it anymore. This is a masterpiece. The story is definitely way more vague than it has any right to be, and its generally visually uninteresting, but the gameplay so damn fun. I thought I was done with the game after beating Hell mode but hours later I’d be back again because maybe I can get that one achievement now, or maybe I do have the skills and knowledge to do a Bunny Extinction run, or maybe getting 0% is more possible than I thought. This game had such a strong vice grip on me that I was not expecting.

The bosses, movement, power progression, difficulty curve, and nonlinearity are so well done that I was kinda left flabbergasted. After all, the look of this game doesn’t really scream “Metroidvania masterclass”, but I guess this world has lots of surprises for us. Another thing that surprised me was how I almost got hit on the emotional side in the dlc section of the game, but that’s mostly because the boss fight surrounding said moment is one of the peakest peaks to ever peak.