feels a little wrong to review this immediately after playing it for only about an hour but i kind of don't want to put myself through a whole lot more of this. the atmosphere is fantastic, it's fun to control, the visuals are tailor-made for me but i really do kinda feel like this just isn't the right genre to do a no-hit game. maybe it's a skill issue (it's almost definitely a skill issue) but this sort of just feels like moving around for a while until something that you couldn't see touches you from behind and you die. i really feel like a game like this would work so much better if it actually had room for error, even though that essentially goes against the game's primary design aspect. maybe if one day i end up getting good and capable of stringing together multiple minutes of gameplay like all those top players i kept seeing my opinion would change, but as it stands its just so much more fun watching someone else play this than playing it myself.

proudly and shamelessly wears its main influence on its sleeve to the point of using the exact same font, but this never really had quite the same amount of wit and heart as undertale. the humour kinda falls flat half the time and the characters aren't interesting enough to build an attachment for them, especially in such a short amount of time. the story itself isn't bad, and has a very interesting (although hard to grasp) philosophical dimension to it, but it only gets interesting towards the end with an admittedly cool plot twist.

where this game actually rules is with the gameplay. the concept of it is genuinely super cool and fun and the game takes it to interesting places, although it does feel kinda samey the entire time. it's further enhanced by the CRAZY visuals which often aim to disorient the player. that is sometimes overdone, but usually really cool and kinda saves the game in all honesty

addendum: yeah actually i don't really care about this at all anymore. it's fine