There’s not much of a game here, I’m sure the sequel is much bett — what’s that you say??

This definitely encourages and rewards mastery like a lot of Sega games of the period, and so maybe a straight playthrough without replaying levels to master them isn’t quite being charitable to the whole “project” of this, but at the same time the core gameplay isn’t nearly as compelling or propulsive as those contemporaneous Sega games that you actually feel like mastering. Interesting and somewhat unpleasant overall, feels a gen too early or late