this game gives me brain damage bc the music slaps, the animation is way too clean, and every now and then the level design gets me going 'woah that was so cool wtf' in a way that only nintendo seems to be capable of pulling off. but then i really can't find it in me to care when the rest of the time i'm bored out of my mind with the surface level combat and all i'm doing is pushing the left stick forward and occasionally tapping Y. when something happens during a level that leaves me awestruck, it's so frustrating bc it's a shining beacon of what the game could be if it were just the tiniest bit less afraid of 'being too hard', and then a few seconds later the game pulls back again and i'm left to mindlessly tick things off of a checklist with little effort.