Childhood game. Tried to beat it many times but never got past level 2 as a kid. Tried a bunch though because the sound effects are nice and made my brain happy. Returning over a decade later, I was able to beat the game, but I think I'd have more fun just running around the first few stages. One positive: the idea that after losing all lives you can go to hell to collect extra souls until they run out as well is pretty cool.

Featuring:
-Screen crunch that adds nothing to the challenge other than leaps of faith
-Damaging items in boxes
-Input delay
-Sound effects playing faster than the animations
-Unclear hitboxes on characters and platforms with no ledge grabs
-Enemies that move significantly faster than you (only an issue due to the input delay)
-Terrible feeling jump
-Awful final boss
-Password system for a game with less than 10 levels
-Mind-numbing music

Terribly frustrating and unrewarding, but short. Happy to tick another childhood game off the bucket list.