OK HEAR ME OUT: if you install the steam workshop mod called "Portrait Remover Plus" or any other "no anime" or "replace the anime with something funny like tf2 characters" type mods, the fact that this is an ecchi game basically stops mattering, and all you're left with is a really competent Metroidvania/bullet hell action-adventure-platformer-shooter genre mashup that provides a nice, refreshing challenge for casual players, and the ultimate challenge for genre veterans and speedrunners. There is so much movement tech in this game, intentional and unintentional, that the developers have achievements for you using some of it, and the community created a steam workshop map that teaches you every movement trick in the game (which, depending on your skill level, might take an hour to even clear part 1 of like 5??? of it???) If Nintendo had taken this game's map and mechanics, but replaced the setting and plot with Metroid stuff and called it Metroid 5, it would have sold a bunnilion copies. Criminally underappreciated game that's held back by the fact that, well, the devs wanted to make an ecchi bunny girl game that just so happened to turn out to be a Metroidvania (according to the art book DLC, it wasn't originally one.) Please play this, even if you hate anime. You can remove most of the anime with mods, and what's left is something you can overlook to enjoy a best-in-class genre mashup with oodles to offer for casual and hardcore players alike.

Reviewed on Dec 31, 2023


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