The visual style is much less impressive than in 2013. The humor is much more annoying than it was in 2013. Gameplay is twitchier and based on testing reaction time and little else. This feels more like a SHMUP, as reflex tests set against a backdrop of flashy visual effects and bunches of projectiles is their thing, but you don't have the same sort of control and deliberate movements you do in those games. When the line between, say, a tiny jump and a large one is measured in milliseconds, victory isn't something you feel as much as feel that you luck into, and that's just not fun.


I love hard platformers, but the difficulty shouldn't come from having a lack of control over the character. That isn't how Super Mario Maker works. It isn't how Super Meat Boy works. Hell, I Wanna Be the Guy, a game deliberately designed to be unfair, didn't even pull this.

The visual style is much less impressive than in 2013. The humor is much more annoying than it was in 2013. Gameplay is twitchier and based on testing reaction time and little else. This feels more like a SHMUP, as reflex tests set against a backdrop of flashy visual effects and bunches of projectiles is their thing, but you don't have the same sort of control and deliberate movements you do in those games. When the line between, say, a tiny jump and a large one is measured in milliseconds, victory isn't something you feel as much as feel that you luck into, and that's just not fun. I love hard platformers, but the difficulty shouldn't come from having a lack of control over the character. That isn't how Super Mario Maker works. It isn't how Super Meat Boy works. Hell, I Wanna Be the Guy, a game deliberately designed to be unfair, didn't even pull this.