Nineteenth GOTW finished for 2023. Way more RPG than I thought I'd find in a NES beat 'em up. Kept me more interested than I thought. Lots of varied paths, builds, options, etc. Lots of repetitive levels, awful platforming/jumping, and hard-to-determine navigation kept this one from being a lot better, but I recognize a lot of that was probably limitations of the system. Really neat little game, but more excited to play some newer versions of this series than I would be to come back to this one.