When the game permits itself to show the player a fun, bombastic setpiece sequence, its latent charm and creativity finally takes centre stage. Really cool moments that make the fullest use of the environments and hardware to reinvent the way you have to tackle obstacles.
The overwhelming majority of the game, however, is hamstrung by the worst controls imaginable and sprawling sadistically vague world design. This cast and world is so great! But Brave Fencer Musashi throws itself into cryosleep for hours at a time between the moments that absolutely slap. I don't want to say this game peaks in the first thirty or so minutes, but you can kinda safely only play the prologue and come out more positively than if you otherwise finished it.