Pretty good gauntlet-action with pretty neat beasties and bosses, if a little bit of a pain in the ass to play. But this game has one of the most asinine boss battles I’ve ever seen in my life. About midway through you face a boss that just grinds on your ass until you die, and since you’re on an invisible conveyor belt you can’t avoid him, you have no choice but to take hits from him and deal as much damage as you can until he is beaten. What if I didn’t pick a character that could heal himself? I’m just supposed to burn precious extra lives in this stupid battle of attrition because you can’t design a good boss? Oh yeah, I almost forgot, you have to face up and shoot at him to beat him, but if you are lucky enough to have a character with healing magic like I was, the magic animation makes you face downward, wasting precious time and making you have to face up again to keep shooting. A boss fight like that should cost any game at least a whole star off, and it certainly does here.

Also, “invisible conveyor belts” is a concept I think I never need to experience again for the rest of my natural life, but thanks anyway game.