i gotta blame the character powers, which were unimaginative, and the lack of garbage cancelling, which is necessary to create offence and defense, preventing this game from being a perfect 10. but GOSH what a good time! Monster Slider is a tour-de-force, of clear vision and crafy execution. its design kernel is brilliantly simple, building off of Columns-style combo design to some truly big-brained-bonkers-nonsense. i felt, once again, while playing a puzzle game, the feeling of flight. super excited for Kokountouzai Eto Monogatari, by the same devs, and to check out the Saturn version on my own terms! as long as i can play as Katherine the Skeleton Man, the perfect 10 is automatic, believe me.