Really ambitious game for the Gameboy Color. Aesthetically it looks really nice. It's very colorful and the animations are quite good. There is also a frickin' day/night cycle which is wild. It honestly feels kind of like a SNES game that somehow got stuck on the GBC.

That said the game is kind of annoying to play. Combat very limiting and awkward. You occasionally need to take leaps of faith, because either you can't see the platform or don't even know it's a platform to begin with. Backtracking just sucks. Like the game has a pretty linear world, so it doesn't make sense to force me to backtrack through levels I have already done. It doesn't feel like I am exploring a world, it feels like I am being forced to play the same platforming levels again. Some of this is certainly limitations of the GBC , other issues feel like they could've been avoided.

I will admit I did not get too far, so maybe the game gets better, but there are too many games I want to play for me to continue playing this. I am interested in playing the sequels though as this game does show promise, and I have heard good things. It's clear the developers put a lot of work into this game, it just isn't very fun in the year 2022.