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[h1][b]20XX[/b][/h1] [h3][b]Time Played:[/b][/h3] 16 Minutes (Before idling for cards) [h3][b]Last Played:[/b][/h3] 17th of August, 2026 [hr] Well now: that was fast... [h3][b]Yay:[/b][/h3] + Al, the training bot boss of the tutorial. + Hazards like spikes, and lava don't insta-kill you. + I had enough info to stop after 16 minutes, contrary to some other games I've played. [h3][b]Meh:[/b][/h3] ~ Nothing. [h3][b]Nay:[/b][/h3] - Changing the resolution froze the game. - Cluttered text on certain menus' descriptions, with some overlap in cases. - The presentation was immediately cheap, and hokey-looking to me: graphics have very-little detail, the animations were very stilted, and flash-game-like, then, places that looked like they should have included some form of icon are blank. The menus were also felt to be very utilitarian, with the game not even having a taskbar icon. - The very first level I tried to play had two instances of things that seemed like they were generated, rather than designed. First a platform that could be jumped to was unnecessarily-linked by a portal that became a needless obstacle to reaching another platform. Then, another portal that required you wall-cling teleported you to a spike tube where the wall was on the opposite side, leading to falling, restarting on solid ground, and not being able to touch the other wall. No, the answer to this was not to dash in it from the opposite end, as you could only touch the Teleporter from the left, while the wall in the spike tube was on the same side. - Attempt/run #2 had something that seemingly required you damage yourself both to get in, and out of the room, given no air dash was present on the character I tried. - This same level also had multiple paths that lead to dead ends. - Some platforms can be jumped, and dropped through, yet others cannot, and the signalling for this was especially-unclear in run 2, where moving ones overlapped, seemingly-encouraging a jump-up. - Enemies seemingly outright-required charged shots to kill... - ...and “shoot” is a different button from “jump”, leading to very awkward manoeuvring. - Dash-jumping while holding a charge literally cannot be done unless you use your pinky to support the controller, and three fingers on different buttons with default controls. - If I got deep into the game, I can imagine dying to the above brand of BS would absolutely infuriate me. - Achievements exist not just for beating the game on hard mode, but with additional modifiers active. When the player has this little agency, that's mostly-luck, which explains why many of these only have 0.6% acquisition rate. [hr] [h3][b]Verdict:[/b][/h3] The fact I was already done with this after just 16 minutes, and 2 attempts should tell you all you need to know about how fair it is to the player. I have played few other things so immediately “because hard!” as this, with levels feeling like they were scattershot generated, rather than designed from blocks the game can pull from, multiple instances of seemingly-unavoidable damage, and completely-awkward controls, atop seemingly-unfinished presentation made this a very easy skip for me. Thus, when progress can be erased so cheaply, and readily, I will disagree with the store description, as I cannot recommend this to fans of Mega Man, or roguelikes, it only being saved from the very bottom as a result of the fact the earlier “deep-into-game run not deleted by unavoidable damage” not having occurred. [h3][b]Placed in:[/b][/h3] 5: Dourly-dismissed.