In short, the game looks great and polished, but the gameplay is critically unfulfilling it's potential and for that I wouldn't recommend the game at full price.



The game's art-style, animations and audio is great. The gunbrella is a really fun mechanic for both fighting and platforming. The characters were interesting and the story was alright.

HOWEVER, the game has extremely easy boss fights and nearly no platforming.

I would argue that the first boss fight is the hardest due to the limited health points we have, but that quickly changes after like the third boss because the game suddenly starts handing out health upgrades like candy and you can then mostly tank and spam the ensuing bosses. I was playing on the hard difficulty and never needed to use any consumable during fights. This is a spoiler, but Mama, one of the two big baddies of the game, is only seen like 3 times in the entire game and the third time she dies to a joke cutscene. While a little funny, it was mostly anticlimactic and disappointing. Also, the second to last boss is by far the easiest in the game. He does one single move on repeat that is incredibly easy to evade.

As for the platforming, I can only recall two sections that really made use of the platforming. This is mostly disappointing because the gunbrella is a great mechanic for platforming and it was barely utilized. I would have expected more platforming challenges and also more secrets reachable through platforming. There were so few secrets and so many opportunities for secret rooms.

Small final note that the setting to adjust the film grain doesn't save for some reason. I have to readjust it everytime I open the game. It also reset itself after I beat the game.

In short, the game looks great and polished, but the gameplay is critically unfulfilling it's potential and for that I wouldn't recommend the game at full price. The game's art-style, animations and audio is great. The gunbrella is a really fun mechanic for both fighting and platforming. The characters were interesting and the story was alright. HOWEVER, the game has extremely easy boss fights and nearly no platforming. I would argue that the first boss fight is the hardest due to the limited health points we have, but that quickly changes after like the third boss because the game suddenly starts handing out health upgrades like candy and you can then mostly tank and spam the ensuing bosses. I was playing on the hard difficulty and never needed to use any consumable during fights. This is a spoiler, but [spoiler]Mama, one of the two big baddies of the game, is only seen like 3 times in the entire game and the third time she dies to a joke cutscene. While a little funny, it was mostly anticlimactic and disappointing[/spoiler]. Also, the second to last boss is by far the easiest in the game. He does one single move on repeat that is incredibly easy to evade. As for the platforming, I can only recall two sections that really made use of the platforming. This is mostly disappointing because the gunbrella is a great mechanic for platforming and it was barely utilized. I would have expected more platforming challenges and also more secrets reachable through platforming. There were so few secrets and so many opportunities for secret rooms. Small final note that the setting to adjust the film grain doesn't save for some reason. I have to readjust it everytime I open the game. It also reset itself after I beat the game.