It was not too obvious what to do once I finished the last story and I hit another thousand clicks before thinking maybe I should check the trophies to make sure this has a ten-thousand-tap trophy like the others (aww crap, it doesn’t). Had to back out of the final scene and re-enter it to trigger the shroom-hike, which I thought was amazing - how were people not enjoying all the cool games? Were they just not imbibing in the off-trail mushrooms?

I gotta re-download the other games now. I watched the credits for the first time and got really invested, and discovered the credits for the other games were the same likeness.

This is now one of the only franchises of which I’ve played every game.

Really not into how slow-moving and dull this game is in spite of the gorgeously drawn environments. There are no hints if I get stuck on a puzzle, so I have to slowly mosey on through the terrain to try to find something I missed. The puzzles aren't really hard, but they're not easy either, so without hints, I imagine a kid would have an absolute conniption if they got stuck. The voices are annoying. I dislike the quirks of the characters, like the rhyming mayor and singing. Not into that.

Not to mention - can you imagine being a kid playing this and hearing the first boss talk about vaccines containing autism? I understand that it's a villain trying to fearmonger with misinformation about vaccines, but that's not spelled out enough for young/impressionable folks in my opinion. WTF.

I had to shelve this game. Maybe I'll pick it up again someday when I have the patience or they update it with a little more speed and a little less clunk.

I'm the kind of person who, with the right kind of crescendo in instrumental music, will openly weep at its beauty for no comprehensible reason. And I absolutely love space-opera music. Combine that with my own struggles to find my own place in my art, trying to reshape the box everyone expects me to fit into... plus that time of the month fast approaching, and I'm a crying mess ready to join the cult of Simon Says Run & Gun.

I'd have liked it a little more if it weren't so linear (so many stellar environments and no Z-axis ability whatsoever), had a little more room to jam with the open notes (as opposed to holding the one button 90% of the time, with 9% Simon Says, and only 1% open jam), and extended JUST beyond where it ended to talk with people about the last performance. And the drug-trip slingshot from the Cosmic Lung to other areas got a little tedious. Woulda been fun to change it up, even a little, each stage.

But I loved the music, the star-studded cast, the eventual customization of my character, and messages. I know it's not something that's gonna ring with everyone, but this just hit me at the right time.