it's known for its fluid animation, but this comes at a cost. your character's movement is severely hindered due to the fact that instead of snapping left to right, there is an added delay due to the makers actually adding frames to his turning. this ends up giving the game a weird difficulty spike where the levels are a cakewalk but the bosses are quite hard due to you having to play around this delay.

fun story and cinematics, and i really loved the ost. the final boss of this game is quite horrific for NES.