When I initially played this game I kind of turned my brain off and chugged through it and cringing at the buzzwords used and wrote it off as nothing more than a fun distraction for a few hours

However this time when I pushed myself to get every single dev time on every level this is when I had to lock in and really appreciate how well designed the levels are for the player. There was constantly new skips I was finding and when I would watch speedruns of certain levels I particularly enjoyed my jaw would drop, its finetuned to feel amazing to flow through and I went so ham in every level I started to feel my hand cramp up it was addicting. The change from joycons to dualsense def helped me enjoy it more shooters to me feel awful on both joycon and pro controller imo.

As for the story id argue that its definitely solid when I first played it was pretty easy to make fun of of course with the shitty buzzwords and pretty generic cookie cutter archetypes but honestly its fun and does its job especially when you know what happens and can pick apart parallels it can get pretty cool, cheesy but enjoyable for the most part.

My big problems this time stem from violet switching on the fly from the worst bait character to actually ok when they pit her with green and her jealousy towards white and my other reason being selling this group of characters as a family but red and yellow share one single dialogue of interaction hard to sell to me but still cool designs and i liked most of them. Glad I gave this one another shot cause now all the heaven/hell rushes are calling to me 🙏 and another note machine girl is like THE perfect choice for the ost of this game

Also Ilyes and Kai if you’re reading this I beat both of your times on every level ;)