The presentation is amazing and the loop is as adicting as you would expect. Unfortunately the story is awful and actively detrimental to the experience.

It's nice to reset your progress so you can feel powerless again and the way they reused the original map is very creative. The story is a little too silly for my taste tho.

The shmup gameplay is great, the pixel art is charming, and the music is hype. I played Void Stranger first, so I was expecting a little more out of its story, but it was still as creative and free-form as you would expect from them. I recommend playing without any spoilers. 

The loop is great, and the story is interesting enough to keep you going. The village itself as a horror hub is also great, and I would love to see them expand on this concept in future games.

They really added Smash Kirby to this game! And by that I mean that Kirby has never felt as powerless and lame as he does here.
He always loses the copied ability when gets hit, 90% of the copy abilities are unrelliable or hit like a noodle, and enemies with much better range and positioning will make sure that traversing the world is going to be as annoying as possible. The 3 NPC Kirbys are also useless.
Only finished this one because I'm trying to complete all the Main Line kirby games.