pretty fun, compelling and stylish beat 'em up which is hampered by a few glaring flaws that get more obvious as the game goes on: unlocking new stages by increasing rank is fine at the beginning, when it means you can progress even if you can't beat a particular stage, but as it goes on and you only unlock one stage per two ranks, it begins to feel grindy. the other big problem is the lag: i played on normal for most of the game but i had to do the final stage on relaxed because the lag got so bad it felt unwinnable otherwise! my ranking would definitely be higher if not for that. also, given how much emphasis the advertising placed on the plot it would've been nice to have some coda showing that the protagonist had 'won'. maybe that's something you can unlock on higher difficulties (since again, lag made the final level frustrating rather than challenging on normal mode) but i doubt it. i enjoyed my time with it, and i'll probably come back to it every now and again, but it could so easily be a better game than it is.