played this on stream for friends as a bit and understood why i never finished it as a kid. it's just brutal dude. i love to deal with two-frame windows to get past extremely confusing hitboxes. it gets an extra 0.5 stars for having a brightness adjustment slider so you don't have to deal with early GBA washed-out colors

Sure, this game is exactly what you'd picture in your head when you read the phrase "a GBA port of Zapper: One Wicked Cricket" but something about a handheld game imitating the same one-hit-kill and save point starvation gameplay as its console predecessor feels bad. This is supposed to be the version of the game that you take on a car ride to Nana's house and it wants you do these grueling yet boring 30 minute maze gauntlets in one go while the soundtrack is digitally farting into your ear.