It's fine; I get the ideas they are going for, they just don't do anything for me.

Doesn't help that I'm pretty sure I softlocked myself because the last two cards I needed were behind key doors and I couldn't find any unopened chests.

Not a fan of locations where you constantly need to drop down from platforms, half the time I either never let go or end up jumping back onto the platform despite letting go of the jump button. Happened too frequently for me to rate this game any higher.

My ass was flattened like a pancake.

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I can marry anyone and that is pretty cool.

Fun platformer where you want to try and get high combos.

Main knock against this game is the final boss. Encourages you to use the cheesiest tactics that weren't needed in the regular levels or previous bosses. Not to mention the length; due to the short length and the many phases of the final boss, you will spend about half of the main story just fighting the final boss.

Had a fun time with the levels, neat gimmicks throughout. The Robot Masters were tough but still a fun challenge, except Slash Man. This could have been 4.5 stars if Wily Capsule 7 was toned down a bit. It's not even that the attacks were hard to dodge, but the effects of each of the orbs were over tuned to hell.

Pretty entertaining characters and story.
Many of the bosses require trial and error since they can end up taking away a third of your health with something as simple as contact damage.

Cute reskin of the first stage of Streets of Rage 2. Nothing more.

Tiger Dojo is the greatest thing to be featured in a video game.

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Love the Sakura/Ilya/Kirei/Rider route

This is a great game held back by the fact that there is little rhyme or reason to where the ball bounces in relation to your board and the walls. Sometimes the ball continues to bounce in one direction despite hitting different sides of your board. Sometimes the ball will just shoot down on a curved wall with little time to react to it. God forbid the ball gets stuck between two blocks or a boss considering that this game is also working on a time limit and it could be solid 20 seconds that you have to sit and wait for the ball to come back to you.

I like Cave Story and Merry Gear Solid. It's alright

My ass was flattened like a... pie?