What's great: The art style and music are wonderful. The little animated cutscenes after unlocking each new constellation. Some affecting vignettes. You can sort of extrapolate what sort of person Hauntii was before their death. It's all very evocative and makes one reflect on their own life. I also love some of the world design. Especially the amusement park entrance.

The gameplay is this strange mix of twin-stick shooter combat combined with the puzzle design of Super Mario Odyssey/BOTW. So there's a lot of trial and error as you make your way around these surprisingly big levels and mess around with different npc's, items, and enemies. Using your haunt power to embody a wide number of npc's and inanimate objects. Finding hidden stars along the way. Some of the puzzle designs were really cool, but unfortunately, too much of it is repeated.

What's bad: The upgrade system doesn't give out upgrades enough to feel a frequent enough sense of progression. It's made worse by the upgrade station not being easily accessible on a lot of levels in the world. So I had stars I could have used to upgrade but I had to wait for another station or backtrack back to one, which would take forever.

The story of your relationship and attraction with an Eternian, another type of being, goes completely unexplained. The main baddie in the game seems half-baked. Some Eternian-hating lady with a bunch of Minion-like characters as her goons. Also some levels are dead zones for health points. That led to some extremely frustrating moments where I couldn't get health unless I backtracked.

There are quite a few visual bugs. Nothing major. All the bad aspects of Hauntii added up. The backtracking, health dead zones, bad antagonist, the lack of upgrades, and the story issues. I wish I could have seen the story to its conclusion, but I had to call it.