Finally beat it after all these years lol. I really like the game, it's a fun beat 'em up with branching paths and puzzles, but it's all pretty simple. I feel like the extreme difficulty was trying to mask that it is a very short game with little substance, but the difficult just highlights how basic the combat is. But I still like it, the music and graphics are great, I love the Genesis twang here, so even if the gameplay is half baked I still have a good time whenever I play it.

I'd recommend playing with save states though, having only three lives and being sent back to the beginning is brutal, especially in a game with so much forced damage and limited healing.