This game has probably some of the best moment to moment gameplay of the indie boomer shooters out now with 3 problems that make me like it not as much as most of its contemporaries.

1: It is way, way too long. It's about 12 hours long and feels like 20 because every level is like 30 minutes long and every boss has like 9 phases. It's a pacing issue, not a length issue. A lot of padding in each level makes this extra not fun.
2: Explosion damage is weird. It deals like 90% of your health including when your own explosions hit me. Whenever I was in the same zip code as a barrel that blew up, I took damage and usually died instantly from near full health.
3: The color palate is ugly as hell. Everything is bright, bright red and in the rare instance that it's not virtual boy core it's dark blue or black. It's mind numbing. Near the end of the game there's a level without a red filter on it and it feels so fresh and new because I'd spent 10 hours in the red zone.

These are big complaints and I feel like on a lesser game they would kill it outright. Thankfully, Turbo Overkill has some insanely good combat. Feels like a more versatile doom eternal combat system where you're constantly weapon swapping, and I absolutely loved the arena design in this game. It's an easy recommend, I just don't think it's the best indie boomshoot like some others do.

The first time I played this I thought it was fine. Not as good as braid but not bad. A few years later I went back to it because I liked the puzzles enough to go for seconds and discovered the second half of the game. Then I thought it was great and people underrated it. I've now played through it for the third time, completed the challenge, and am working on cleaning up the last of the puzzles, and I think this is one of the best games ever made. This game seems pretentious but it's exactly as smart as it claims to be and I'm glad that the narrative surrounding the game is shifting from "shitty maze game for art majors" into "actually really cool puzzle game". It takes a while to chew on, but I love this game. I don't really consider this a rating for this year, so I'm not putting this on any lists, but this recent playthrough solidified to me just how much of a 10/10 this game is.

Might as well rate some games I'm never going to replay but want to give my takes on while I'm rating replays this year. Ace attorney 1 is rough compared to the later games but also has a very different vibe. There's a sort of noir feel that isn't really there as much in the rest of the trilogy, and is completely gone by the DS games. I feel like whether most people think this is a rough but good start or a weak link hinges on whether they fuck with 1-5. I like 1-5 a lot, so I give it honors.

I never finished this game. I got bored in the third case and called it quits. Every bad thing about ace attorney since the end of the first trilogy coalesced into this game while GAA was singing beautiful songs in Japan only. Overreliance on gimmicks, comically overblown stakes, boring investigation sequences, bloated cast, this game really does have every criticism of ace attorney in one package. Doesn't help I was playing this on my phone, which is absolutely the worst way to play these games.