This game has two very distinct marks against it. The first is that half of the game is far too slow paced and generic that it's hard to get into for late comers (or, to anyone that has more/better options for action-platformers). The second is that the version we're looking at is actually very much an "Americanized" adaptation of Spirit Hero Wataru, which is essentially a super-robot fantasy comedy where a young boy on roller-blades gets transported to a fantasy world to fight evil demon invaders with the help of a dragon god of thunder in the shape of a mech.

I still have nostalgia for this game, even if it isn't that great factually, and end up playing it once in a red moon (maybe longer than that). Can't say I recommend. Honestly, go watch the anime instead. Infinitely better.