I think Level 5 was largely my favorite run of levels, mostly because it took pretty cool use of bookshelves hiding crawling hands coming at you, and the bottomless pits in the containment tubes were easier to avoid and enemies typically didn't spawn to push you in them. The sewers and lab get a difficulty spike, but it's still a test of patience overall.

The portal level sucked. The amount of health just isn't enough for what is memorization of patterns with some otherwise unreactable segments in the chaos.

The seventh string of levels was also fine! The void's aesthetic is cool, and I like how the eventual escape is basically running away from Brawl's Tabuu with some glowing orbs. The difficulty of the second part, removing the girl from the crystal, is pretty punishing, though.

The final section of levels is where it really gets grating in terms of options and movement, though. The patterns of the elevator drop are fine, but the final boss is heavy reaction time + patterns with a high difficulty curve. It's not impossible and the difficulty is a challenge, but it really pushes how little your movement and combat options are, where the last section of the final boss requires nearly perfect execution with movement I already wasn't a fan of.

This game is brutally hard, but the aesthetic fucks. The first level starts off pretty easy, with just a tough boss that will almost immediately make you lose a life as you get more used to the system. Wish the picking up weapons thing was telegraphed better, although I guess there's manuals for this sort of thing.

It's the second set of levels that are the real doozy, though. The elevator is unforgiving along with your lack of lives, but there's also the purple things that really test your movement along with patience. And then you have a boss which has patterns you need to learn quickly.

Really love the gory shit in the third set of levels with the boss here. First it throws scissors at you along with a chainsaw, but then you have to deal with fetus-looking marionettes that spit acid at you.

The fourth set of levels is where the bosses really get... well cheap is the wrong word, but unfun? The guy has your slide which has better frame data than you, so you have to have perfect jumps to hit back, as it's the only way to do damage and not receive any in return. It's a realllllly small gap. But then he morphs into a spider that really punishes you. I just wish you had more combat options than punch, kick, and jumping kick. Not being able to carry weapons to mix it up a bit into other sections of a level is annoying.

METAL GEAR.... it begins....

I spent an embarrassing amount of time not using the box wondering why rooms were unfair until I realized you could just use the box for the cameras. I'm an idiot.

Abusing the ammo spawns so I can just use the suppresser on everything. I like how some rooms force you to learn guard patterns but also I'm sorry I just want to continue fast, pew pew

I like how the RA achievement for getting captured is "I M SO SMRT!!!"

Having a very pleasant replay. Still very cute. Love all the flavor text by checking that I didn't do when I played it the first time. There's some really good jokes in there.

Toriel is still ADORABLE and still MAKES ME SAD
The music is still FANTASTIC and still MAKES ME SAD

I love seeing Sans and Papyrus just look back and forth over and over again only to confuse a rock with a human lol

Ate my face in from the word go. At first I thought it was easy with the first two enemies, but as soon as the big guy shows up, immediately had to adjust hard to the controls and figuring out how to set shit up.
And at that point, was absolutely invested. This game is so, so, so much fun. Combos are insanely customizable and the game really asks you to be on your dodge game... which also shows how bad I am (I don't even know how many times I've died already up to the first boss). I love and hate the dynamic difficulty. I understand the game getting easier when I suck so I enter the flow state easier, but I also find the game less fun at Lv 1 than I do Lv 2. I have yet to even touch 3 or DIE though lol

Absolutely cheesed the first boss as much as I could, if you could even call it cheesed because I still died 35 times, it is a HUGE step up in difficulty. Just quick on roulettes and god hand, trying to get them stuck in a corner as they acrobat jump all over my ass and make me eat the ground. I love this game.

Still feels insanely nostalgic to open the game up (playing on Mother 1+2 translation). Also still hilarious how the Easy Ring was patched in, the TL was really that mad at the game that they intentionally made the game easier lmao

The music is such a vibe, such impressive music for NES-era and the GBA does a really good job emulating it as well, which is a surprise!

The battle system is still lame as hell and I'm really just mashing the attack button for levels 1-14, as well as examining what PSI is, but the Easy Ring makes everything else more than just tolerable.

Currently just got Lloyd, I'm moving decently fast (thank you Easy Ring!). There's still a few annoying things in terms of inventory space up to that point (I drop so many things ;_;), but otherwise I'm so glad I'm playing this version.

Got absolutely fucked by the tutorial boss, but otherwise haven't died once, although I'm also a really cautious player. There's always a ton of grass if you look hard enough.
I like the oppressive aesthetic of the world, it's so dreary. It kinda melds into every single enemy, which might be a turn off to some but I find it really helps the atmosphere. It's soulless but it's the point, I think.

Phalanx, for example, has little to no soul to it as far as I know. It's just a mass of shields and spears, and there's very little color to it, save for a light color in the middle, behind all of it... wish the boss fight was any good, though. I found it really boring to just run and cut.
The problem is that Hoplites are introduced to you before the boss itself, which makes the boss' puzzle ridiculously easy. You already learn "oh get behind them", now it's "run around and murder". The only difference is you have to be quicker on your feet, I guess.
Also didn't expect one area in Demon's to take so long! This is my first Souls experience but good lord.
I also haven't gotten any spells? Is there a place to get them?

I've also just been informed Phalanx has lore that I might be able to figure out if I didn't leave one Hoplite alive because I'm used to bosses going apeshit when they're the only one left in a plethora of other games. I was worried about an enrage thing.

Does.... does Winnie the Pooh want to commit suicide? He was thinking about "how to say goodbye to Pooh"...... And then I immediately have to leave to get pages.

Opposite Armor really be "You really thought you were safe with Ripple Charge, huh". Donald and Goofy continue to be unintentional meat shields as they dumbly run straight into every hit, wasting my Potions from them using it on themselves.

I am not creative and just decked out my Gummi Ship until it looks like a Frankenstein's monster but it's got speed, power, and armor! Just don't look too closely it's a mess

Clayton's fight was annoying simply because I had to climb the vines to get to him, but otherwise was a piece of cake, even with the gecko thing. That being said, the slide game seems like a piece of cake until it surprises you on the last fruit and then you have to restart the whole thing all over again to get that one dang fruit hahahahahahahaha

I like how the return visit to Traverse features more aerial enemies. My favorite part of the combat is air fighting because ground gives you too many good things early game that makes fighting a joke and you have to be careful when jumping around or you'll stumble into something's charge up.