A very fun and fluid combat system that blends a multitude of elements into an explosive eye-candy gameplay loop. A pleasing visual style with fast-paced shooter gameplay and (mostly) excellent level design made this a joy to play. Sadly, as a person who is always a sucker for narratives and great characters, Neon White falls completely off the mark. It's not horrificly bad or anything, but with such a generic plotline and archetypal characters, it ultimately does nothing for me except make me want to hit F and skip through literally everything to get to the real heart of the game.

If you ignore the story, this game is a blast and makes you really feel like you're cut out for the speedrunning business. Unfortunately, ignoring the story is hard for me to do. But I liked it for sure.