2024 Update

I really am happy with how this game's progressing and it's looking to be a really great rhythm game with tons of charm

Already 100% the new update and ready for the game whenever it comes out eventually lol

Lumba is a classic tale of the absolute desperation of humanity.
Locked deep within this treacherous bullet hell is a story of betrayal and misery.

On the surface killing an entire office of your co-workers sounds like a blast.
But the voices that persuade you to commit these joyous acts that bring you ultimate happiness don't have your best interests in mind.
Proceed with caution as the moving tale of Lumba erodes away at your fragile humanity.

Boss fights set you in perilous encounters of which that last boss took me over half it's runtime to beat, not because it's difficult but because my sense of self had been stripped away by the deep philosophical nature of the story.
How could I bring myself to destroy the one part of myself that kept me going, the part that brought me so much joy in the previous hour of gameplay.
I've been loaded up on so much lumba when I wrote this review that even these words as I'm typing them look like they need shot in the head.
and as the "Post review" button stares at me disappointed in multiple of my life choices, I feel the need to just click it

ok so this review is just for the WeekEnd 1 update that dropped like an hour before i wrote this review

holy shit that was awesome.
first of all WeekEnd 1 (Darnell's Week) is a massive upgrade from what we saw earlier. Better cutscenes, better music, better everything. Basically an improved version of Week 7.
Darnell as a song is pretty good, Lit Up is alright, 2Hot is insanely cool and Blazin' is a cool but welcome surprise.

Onto the rest of the content, the erect remixes. The sound team did a fantastic job with all of these, every song is a massive improvement from the originals. Standouts in particular are High, Senpai, Roses, Thorns, Spookeez and Blammed.

Everything else about the game has been updated as well, making it feel more like a complete and finished experience. (Hopefully) Closer to what the full ass game will be like.

Terrible. By far the worst classic Mega Man game and a strong contender for the worst game in any Mega Man series. The design choices in this game are profoundly stupid. All of them. The removal of charge and slide, the outrageously slow menus with the same texts being repeated endlessly, the overuse of spikes and jumps that require perfection, among other things.

When it comes to retro games, it's true that they're often associated with high difficulty, but also with well-crafted level design and overall good progression. This game lacks an interesting one. Instead it is repetitive, and excessively frustrating level design. It also amplifies the worst flaws of these retro games like terrible navigation menus. In some cases, it goes beyond that, EXACERBATING these issues. Mega Man 2, for example, was nowhere near as clunky as 9 is.

I'd probably give it an even worse score, but visually, the game has a charm and a few stages are decent. It's a game from 1986 stuck in 2008. But not from a competent developer like Capcom, but rather on the level of bad stuff like LJN games.

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