One of the ugliest main characters I've ever seen, looks especially bad in the lighting of the game's engine. An unacceptable amount of core movement mechanics are left unexplained and are not intuitive to figure out on your own. The left face button performs three wildly different actions depending on whether you tap, double tap, or hold it. There are so many pauses in animations that kill the flow of movement. The right stick yoyo aiming feels useless outside of forced gimmick moments. It is so easy to grind yourself to a halt and kill all of your momentum from one wrong motion. The yoyo ride sometimes refuses to turn and sometimes doesn't and it feels random. It felt like I needed to completely master the controls to even have a chance to experience flow in any level.

The music leaves no impression on me. Level design feels homogenous and makes my eyes glaze over. The powerups feel unnecessary. The side quests where you do tasks for people are boring at best and an annoying diversion at worst. Bosses feel like 3D mario bosses in the worst possible way. The quick time events, especially the stick rotations, feel horrible and slow and only made me want to purposely land lower on the end level setpiece. On several occasions I became locked out of a collectible unless I killed myself or restarted the level. To get to options you have to go all the way back to the title screen, for some reason "Tutorials" is more important to put on the pause menu than options.

There are so many bugs it's insane, at one point I had to play the same level 4 times because it kept locking me in an animation on the level complete screen and freezing my game. The number of walls and floors I clipped through was hilarious. The most fun way to play is by ignoring almost every stage mechanic and even then it's not fun. I would never want to replay this game.