The first like 2/3's of this game are fucking awesome. Great graphics, great soundtrack, awesome moves compared to the first Shinobi game, it's just an awesome time that makes you forget you're playing a Genesis game. The latter part of the game though it starts to fall into some design pitfalls that I feel hold back a lot of similar games from this era. Overall, pretty great especially if you like older platformers. It made me really wanna check out some of the more modern entries.