Played this on Nintendo Switch Online :) I have been very unsure of 'menu' games for my entire life! I don't get them, I feel like it's just boring? Why would I want to press menu options to do my attacks instead of spamming buttons and rolling around and that. Anyway turns out when you make a menu game and plaster cute mario paper characters everywhere and also have charming and funny writing then I will be tricked into liking it :) I was drawn in by the action commands, since it added an extra element of interactivity and they were nice, but inconsistent. I liked the variety of inputs for them though. Shockingly I started to wish that the action commands weren't there and I instead could just, select my moves and let the battle play out without this extra element. I never hated them but yeah, Mario Paper drew me in and got me to like menu games. This game could could be 5 stars if they cut some stuff out I think. If it was maybe 6 chapters long, or even 5? The prologue was wonderful, Chapter 3 and 4 were great, and Chapter 7? Beautiful! Made me so happy, I had a smile on my face the whole way through basically. :) I liked choosing different badges and decided what one felt best. There were a couple of areas I became tired of but you know what? I was never sick of them, and while I was looking forward to the game being over I still had a good time with all of it and I'm excited to play TTYD :)