Bakeru is a fun platformer but one that never really wows or perfects anything it does, instead it's pretty alright. I wish they'd just put the time they put into making 60 levels into instead halving that list and making each one feel more memorable, because the slog that the number of levels psychologically and tonally creates is honestly the worst thing about the game, everything else is pretty good but hopefully the seemingly poor sales don't kill the chances of a sequel.

P.S. Also technically unrelated to game design but the performance is abysmal. Worse than Scarlet and Violet but at least those games have a fantastic game lying underneath the issues, Bakeru is just a very slightly above average platformer. I played on an overclocked Switch which was 1.5x faster than a standard Switch and it still 90% of the time ran at 20FPS or lower. Plus lots of input drops which don't just happen at inconvenient times but all the time.

P.P.S. I played through this using Team Oceanic's fantastic fantastic fan translation which I would highly recommend if you are interested in checking this game out.