This game is kind of shit and torturous to play but I thoroughly enjoyed this janky Japanese Xbox exclusive (a rarity to this day). There's so many bizarre ideas that are poorly implemented yet I can't help but get sucked into it, maybe it's my nostalgia for the era of games where the game bears everything about itself on it's sleeve without much pretense.
The dream sections are still very cool to play through and the checkpoint system is just unforgiving enough to keep me on edge during normal difficulty - there is a very specific way this game wants you to play and you have to accept that you're going to take a lot of damage, so enjoy watching Derrick eat half of an energy bar before chucking it away forever at least 200 times.
The game pulls a very cool trick on you too that you should stop reading here if you have any interest in playing:
At the start you're playing an extremely careful tactical """"shooter"""" (if you can even call this proper shooter gameplay), by the end you're raining explosive death from above and spamming laser beams at giant hulking masses from outside their effective AI range. Excellent stuff and despite the box art I did not expect it to get to this point. Nothing quite like it.
It's a shit game that I hate playing but I love it all the same. No-one wanted this ambitious project when it came out, but I'll take it if they won't have it, butt-rock credits and all.
The dream sections are still very cool to play through and the checkpoint system is just unforgiving enough to keep me on edge during normal difficulty - there is a very specific way this game wants you to play and you have to accept that you're going to take a lot of damage, so enjoy watching Derrick eat half of an energy bar before chucking it away forever at least 200 times.
The game pulls a very cool trick on you too that you should stop reading here if you have any interest in playing:
At the start you're playing an extremely careful tactical """"shooter"""" (if you can even call this proper shooter gameplay), by the end you're raining explosive death from above and spamming laser beams at giant hulking masses from outside their effective AI range. Excellent stuff and despite the box art I did not expect it to get to this point. Nothing quite like it.
It's a shit game that I hate playing but I love it all the same. No-one wanted this ambitious project when it came out, but I'll take it if they won't have it, butt-rock credits and all.