It’s a fun puzzle game that due to its genre hasn’t aged nearly as badly as some other NES games. Unfortunately it’s just not my thing for anything more than light entertainment. I did enjoy the game, completed it fully, and found it very rewarding to finally figure out a tough puzzle, just not enough to grip me.

I have a couple of complaints about the game regardless though. The first is that the game uses a half-square based grid instead of a full square one. Admitedly this does lead to some outside the box thinking in later puzzles, but it also results in way too many slight missteps that result in having to reset an entire level because you pushed a block 1/2 a square too far, or you missed a turn while being chased (or you could just use the Switch's rewind feature but that would be cheating and I would never do that 👀).

Another compliant is that things don't always seem to work consistently. For example, you can turn enemies into eggs, push them into water and ride on them. But the amount of time they spend before sinking, even with enemies of the same species, differs massively. On one stage I pushed an enemy into the water and it sunk straight away. I get that it's to prevent sequence breaking and make sure you do the puzzles in the exact right way, but it's very counter-intuitive for the player.

But those didn't ruin the game for me, just led to some frustrating moments, and the former one even benefited the game in a couple of cases.