A wonderful JRPG with a good combat system. Somewhat of a singleplayer MMO, only with a captivating story with great characters. Side quests are almost entirely uninteresting, however. The vast majority of side quests are just meant to be completed as you work your way through the story. Few of them add anything new to the story. Excellent music as well, pretty good graphics and the environments have a great sense of scale. Can sometimes be detrimental though, as in order to get through some areas, you just have to run in a straight line for a long time. There is even an auto-run button so you don't have to hold the stick forward if you don't want to.

Great artstyle, though sometimes threats aren't well telegraphed because of it. Great music. Good game flow. Jumping, grappling, and shooting are all really fun. Actually not very great for a roguelike. Feels like a lot of "gotcha!" difficulty obstacles and things designed solely to punish the player for as many things as possible. Did not beat, some unfair difficulty mechanics were not fun to play through. Also having to repeat the same ships increasingly more times further on in the game was not fun.

Very disappointed by the design decisions of the final level. Obviously, with a name like "The Impossible Lair," the level should be hard, but the game does not prepare you for the difficulty spike in the final level, so it ruined the feel of the game for me. It turned a very fun, and occasionally challenging 2D platformer into a frustrating death loop akin to something like Super Meat Boy. The rest of the game is beautiful, well made, has memorable music. The final level really sours the overall experience, and it's very disappointing. 4/5 without final level, 3.5/5 with.