Pretty neat beat em up. As long as you go in not expecting a proper no more heroes game, I think you'll have a good time. Has some cool surprises, each level having a different gaming aesthetic is nice and direction wise it feels like the most Suda game Suda has been attached to in the past like...decade. Downside is the game has zero replayability for a beat em up, combat starts to get dull half way through and the levels are WAYYYYYY too long. If they cut the levels by half I think this game would benefit a lot from it. Otherwise, it's good?...
------UPDATED 21/08/21 ----------------
Alright so I replayed this game two and a half years later with a lot more knowledge of Suda's previous games and his career. I will say this time around the last third of the game affected me more than previously and I found it to be really sweet! The idea of Suda killing his own past and examining video-games as a whole and also his past experiences is a really cool idea that I think he pulls off pretty well! Also after finishing The Silver Case/Flower, Sun and Rain/The 25th Ward I could now play the visual novel sections and point at the screen going "KURUMIZAWA POG!" where I couldn't before.
Whilst I was more positive on that stuff, if there's one negative that didn't change it's the length of these levels ohmygoddddd. I can put up with some laborious gameplay but man! Honestly if the levels were just a bit shorter/more varied this game would be stellar to me. But...it's still good!
------UPDATED 21/08/21 ----------------
Alright so I replayed this game two and a half years later with a lot more knowledge of Suda's previous games and his career. I will say this time around the last third of the game affected me more than previously and I found it to be really sweet! The idea of Suda killing his own past and examining video-games as a whole and also his past experiences is a really cool idea that I think he pulls off pretty well! Also after finishing The Silver Case/Flower, Sun and Rain/The 25th Ward I could now play the visual novel sections and point at the screen going "KURUMIZAWA POG!" where I couldn't before.
Whilst I was more positive on that stuff, if there's one negative that didn't change it's the length of these levels ohmygoddddd. I can put up with some laborious gameplay but man! Honestly if the levels were just a bit shorter/more varied this game would be stellar to me. But...it's still good!