I very much wanted to love this game, and it started off promising! In the end, though, it just felt like a kind of soulless copy of the best of the genre. My biggest issue was that I grew frustrated with the level design and felt like I had to do a lot of backtracking that bogged things down. Seemed like artificial difficulty that wanted to harken back to the games of old, but just felt hollow. Also, some of the enemy encounters just weren't that fun to engage with. To be honest, that could be a skill issue on my part, but it soured the experience for me. Maybe I'll give it another try in a few years, but I'd much rather go back and play the actual games this one was inspired by.