Such a shame how boring this game can get when the plot is pretty interesting, some songs are fire and most importantly it looks absolutely stunning from the beginning to the end.

The characters are really expressive and have memorable designs, the lands you walk on are have great patterns and the background (and sometime foreground) are so detailed and beautiful and have amazing parallax it's... it's the best looking pixel art game I've played.

I'm not familiar with its development cycle, I just know it began a billion years ago so I assume they spent most of the time working on the artstyle. Also the fact I haven't been waiting for this game since its announcement is part of why I'm not being as harsh on it as other people I guess.

The gameplay is very unsatisfying however. The basic and spider shots feel weak, the fire canon takes way too long before you can fire again and because we can just fly around the battles feel weirdly boring as you can go about anywhere in the room, unless you're in a tight passage. The dungeons were pretty well thought out so I'll give it that.

Anyway it was overall pretty disappointing but still a fine short game with a ball-busting artstyle and an "average gameplay", whatever that means lmao.