even through the tedium that was trial-and-erroring the educational minigames (hard to play games about knowing a language you don't know), the game had a lot of charm~! the presentation is /phenomenal/, and was honestly enough to carry the rest of the game on its own, but the level design and mechanics, while not shining quite as brightly, still held up well.
the game is also really generous, having infinite continues, which i appreciated as i died a lot (even though it's really not that difficult... i guess i suck at platformers, despite loving 'em!)

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right after writing this, i played through the game again using the passwords on gamefaqs to skip the minigames and dang, this game is breazy! it also has some /real/ good color palettes.