With something completely out of left field from their other titles, Tango decided to reveal and shadow drop a new game on the same day, with no indication on what it was beforehand aside for some misleading leaked concept art. As it turns out, they were quietly making a charming action platformer that stands out with a rhythm style where everything moves and syncs to the beat of the music. And it’s incredibly good!

The cues of the animations, the environments, enemies, bosses, etc, all serve as the basis for the addicting combat where timing with the songs amplify your attacks, giving this a really uniquely executed system that gradually opens up with more mechanics and skills as you progress. The further you get, the more it clicks all the way up to its excellent final levels

And the cel-shaded art style looks amazing! Very well polished and the dynamic animations paired with the clean image quality makes it extremely impressive to look at. I’m honestly shocked Tango was able to make something like this cause I remember The Evil Within 1 and 2 being pretty rough technical wise. In comparison this ran like a dream with not a single slowdown or bug during my playthrough

I even liked the story and characters more than expected. It’s simple and while the dialogue initially didn’t inspire confidence, it’s paced well and the characters quickly become endearing, proving to be an over the top but joyful time

Honestly I don’t have much gripes, I suppose the platforming could be a bit tighter and fighting multiple enemies can get pretty chaotic to follow without lock on. Also this is actually a fairly sizable game and some of the levels can stretch a bit long, but those are minor to me. I really loved it, and for something that’s just $30 or on Game Pass it’s a complete steal for how much effort was clearly poured into it. Awesome start to the year!