I rate this game very highly, but I have also found that I have to put it down, unfinished. The core of the game, polishing off these perfect little speedruns of precise platforming and shooting is absolutely amazing, great idea, great execution, great style.

However, as I got further into the game I found the levels got longer and longer and more and more complicated. Redoing a 20-30 second level a dozen times over to shave a couple of seconds off my time was fantastic fun, but things really started to drag with levels that were over a minute in length of involved a lot of fiddly weapon swaps or mechanics, or else required a lot of time just to figure out in the first place. It killed the pace. I could have moved on through the levels quickly if I took some gold or silver medals, but it just didn't feel right.

In the end, I felt like I was facing diminishing returns. The parts of the game I enjoyed I really enjoyed, absolutely worth the price of entry. I think if I kept playing the game I'd have liked it a lot less, so I decided to cut it short.

Oh, and I skipped as much of the plot as possible. It's a pitch perfect recreation of high school dub anime hijinks, and just as unbearable as the real thing.