Nothing about this game stands out. The platforming and action technically work but it doesn't have any of the pizzazz its contemporaries/inspirations have. The music is not offensively bad but man there is absolutely nothing memorable there. One of the songs in Chapter 7(?) was kinda good? Oh yeah and there's a story here I guess? At least the art is good.

The first half is not very fun. Not because it's hard or anything, you just don't have much to play with, and the lacklustre level design/enemies do not make up for that. By the time you get the dash, you've already played most of the game. It's also at this point where it starts picking up, and the last couple of levels are actually kinda fun! But it's over by then. I don't really see why they give you this stuff throughout the game and not from the start, since it just leaves the earlier parts feeling more boring.

The checkpointing is also a bit weird, but nothing egregious. None of the special weapons feel satisfying or memorable. Parrying works but isn't really satisfying either.

When I wake up tomorrow, the only thing indicating that I ever played this will be this review. So I'm just leaving it here for my own sake when I inevitably go "Huh, Cyber Shadow, I don't really remember that, maybe I should replay it?"