Very well crafted game with interesting mechanics and puzzles. I'd love to give it a glowing 5 stars but I'd say the Lives system is really not that great. It's an antiquated design from older, archaic games. There are more than enough levels in this game to warrant not having lives and instituting maybe a continue system with checkpoints?
Edit - Time to address what is really wrong with this whole system. If you don't mind spoilers, the final boss and levels preceding him are absolutely unbeatable with 20+ or even 50+ lives. Not that you'd even get that many since the game clearly wants you to grind them in the practice modes until you're sick of seeing it. The final boss has some of the most harebrained and ludicrous attacks. They are not interesting or fun or even gimmicky like this game attempts to be. I fought long and hard to get to the dreaded M-60 just to be greeted by asinine and conflicting logic.
SPOILER TIME
The boss is a recurrent monster of level E-40's one eyed demon snake if you've played that. The issue is that he:
Summons worms that are FAR too fast to counteract along with the boss
Is bloody massive, leading to him walling off crucial damage fruits to hurt him
Has a flowering spike attack that summons up to EIGHT flowers that SPIKE YOU if ANY part of your body touches it! Let's also not forget that crucial powerups you will NEED to defeat him make the fight HARDER because you grow when you eat them! beyond that the flowers despawn at the heat death of the universe, so the arena is completely unbeatable if your RNG is bad. Please developer, understand that having a luck based overload of mechanics at the end of a 60 level SLOG is not fun or challenging. It's stupid. Please make this game less RNG dependent and I'll change my review.
