Demon Turf is a victim to its own overambition. A game with so many systems preventing it from excelling at any one of them. With solid platforming, a great (if repetitive) OST, and a fun premise, you think this is everything it would take to make a solid all-around platformer. But alas, Demon Turf is punching far above its own weight class, and while usually I would greatly admire that ambition–and I do admire it–the game’s reckless insistence that there be middling combat and an overbearing overworld knocks it down from the much more promising premise of a precision platformer. Fortunately for me, Demon Turf received a stand-alone expansion in the form of Demon Turf: Color Splash, which seems to do everything I would have liked to see out of the first game. While the platforming is immensely fun, the animations come off as clumsy and everything else including way too much side content for what the game can handle bring it down for me.