during the final level of mission 11 i genuinely felt like i had gone into a trance-like state, able to see both what the game was about to do and what i had to do to get to it, my hands and brain felt like it had become one with my cutely decorated nintendo switch and, as i got that first try ace medal, i felt like as if i had just experienced a lucid dream where everything had been under my control despite everything else trying to take that away from me

no one, not even the middle-of-the-road story, can take that experience away from me