The first thing you notice when you start playing this game is that it feels great, super great actually, like a proper beat em' up and unlike the previous two games, that alone makes the experience ten times more enjoyable already...

Only to be hit with the single biggest flaw of this game, the timer. I already don't like timers much but I can manage, and having different endings depending on wether or not you reach in time is new for the series and not bad in paper. The problem here is that time goes too fast, enemies can take many hits to kill and actually avoid you, bosses in particular are infuriating since they just circle you wasting your time, but worst of all is that whenever you get hit and fall you have to go though a time consuming animation of Rick slowly getting up and shaking his head (he only need to look at the camera and go "yeowch" at that point) and it's even longer if you lose a life.

It's truly a shame because it plays so good and it could be the most fun in the original trilogy but that only flaw with the timer pushes it back a landslide.