a bealtiful goth dress that's filled with annoying plastic spikes that poke and scratch you everytime you wear it.

thats how i'd sum up this game, its bealtiful, clever, gritty and witty at the same time.
the voice acting is amazing and the art direction is the star of the show here.
HOWEVER
in order to enjoy it you must go through a slog of a clunky combat that is vert selective of when you are dealing damage to a enemy and when your weapons are ineffective because youre slighly under them, or next to them, or above them. actually i don't know the criteria, sometimes you just don't do damage at all but oh they will give you damage don't worry about that.
trollish levels that i think mcgee borrowed from the time he was a doom level designer, and he can go eat a onion for all i care with that shit, be mindful of silly traps and shoving a room full of enemies to pad gameplay.
whose idea was it to make underwater sections with mandatory combat in a game where hitting the enemy requires god to be on your side and some sprinkle of luck ???
don't forget to save, seriously don't.
to sum it up this is a bealtiful game that requires you to feel PAIN in order to play, even getting this game is some jank, you gotta order a disc from someone else, buy the madness return and edit the config files to make it playable through the exe of madness return, oh but you also need to download the files as well. do i hate it for all it has done ? no, its charm and style makes up for it, but beware of this mistress stupid personallity