I dunno man, maybe showing a sad and dramatic pet-and-owner separation as a motivation to clear the game and then resolving it on the second level is a great example of terrible pacing.

B.ARK is like a kiddie-shmup. Like, a shmup you'd find on the back of a cereal box. It works, but it's not doing much for me and I don't want to get better at it when games like Hazelnut Hex, Blue Revolver, or any classic shmup that you could play on Fightcade exist.

I feel like the selling point of this is the 4-player multi-player, but I'm not really interested in playing this with anyone.