a good part of this game is fun albeit pretty flawed, the enemy design can be outright atrocious at times (shoutout to you, mastiffs) but it's at least fun cutting shit apart

but of course the bosses are what really shine here. even the first few bosses in this game are so good that they'd genuinely fit in with some of the best bosses games have to offer, and then they only get better from there until you hit the fucking incredible climax of a boss fight that is armstrong and have to deliberately hold yourself back from screaming the lyrics of it has to be this way

boss fights as an artform peaked in this game and it's genuinely a shame more don't take after it