I picked this up for the art style alone, and the art is both this game's greatest strength and greatest weakness. It's a strength because it is absolutely gorgeous and faithful to animation of old (without all the baggage, racism, etc.) but it's a weakness because the screen gets really busy and it's incredibly difficult to see what is going on at times. I cannot imagine playing this in co-op, adding another moving character and more particles and such. This chaos along with some unfortunate RNG at the end made some of the bosses artificially difficult. Fortunately, the difficulty throughout is mostly fair and the controls are as perfectly tight and responsive as they need to be. It's a great game but I would honestly recommend just watching someone play through this on YouTube rather than playing it yourself.