this game is just that one emotional chart where it constantly goes from "it's so over" to "we're so back", I don't think a single game has ever made me as frustrated one sitting and ecstatic the next but my god when a weapon finally clicks and you start controlling entire matches it feels so damn good

the single player is also great but the octo expansion is better

if you're gonna have all the music from all three games be playable in the lobby please let me play them in matches too, thanks Nogambi

A very Suda game. It's got everything you'd expect from him: wrestlers, assassins, chapters that start and end on very similar beats, a great sense of style, and fantastic writing across the board.
Not to break into a whole "can games be bad on purpose" type beat discussion but they definitely knew what they were doing here. One of the most notable things about it is how the game actively slows down the protagonist's journey with unnecessary distractions and then has the gall to have characters get mad at you for not doing what you were brought here for in the first place. Reminds me of YIIK but unlike in that game it builds up to something here and is very well executed where the player is very much in on the joke and it leads to extremely well explored characters that never fail to be interesting and charming.
If you're new to Suda and have just gone through killer7 or the No More Heroes series and want to see more of what he made, this is 100% worth checking out though I would recommend everyone to play The Silver Case beforehand.

Just pure fun. It definitely feels a little scrappy, like it's incredibly easy to go flying in a random direction with all the momentum you have built up and the camera to go insane but I genuinely think these are things that add to the sheer insanity that is this game instead of detracting from it. These stages are insane as well, like with all of them if you wanna play them as Sonic stages and just rush through go ahead but at the same time these stages have so, SO much more content in them. It's mind blowing. Game straight up turns into a collect-a-thon if you want it to be. Add the absolutely wild story and you got a banger game.

just play bayo 1 man like fuck visually it's nicer yknow like you got colors going on and somehow even more super impressive animations but god man the enemy design in this game is the fucking worst dude, like on normal they're annoying and on either of the harder difficulties they're pretty insufferable, same goes for the bosses of which I'd say a good 90% at least suck complete wiener. still tho this is a 3/5 cause a) the combat is still bayo combat and bayo combat fucking rules and b) the new weapons, like all of them are great, in bayo 1 a lot of weapons felt like repeats but here you got a ton of them that feel very unlike the others