Recent reviews by Gib Melson

Great little puzzle game. Will blow your mind by the end.

This is an excellent and very well polished game. The pinnacle of metroidvania game design.

This is a very well polished game. Controlling Hornet feels amazing, exploring the well designed maps is great.

Team Cherry spent a lot of time polishing and adding things to the game. But it is clear to me that they kept adding stuff, without thinking if that is what the game needs. WoW quests for example, did the game need a quest system? "Go out and get 15 cloth from enemies in this area", drops 50% of the time. This is just pointless filler.

Most bosses are fun and fair (Last Judge), some bosses are extremely unfair (Vengeful Beastfly). One mistake can easily spiral into losing all your hp. Some of the corpse runs are long and hard, meaning that each attempt is gated behind a 5 minute slog back. The shell (ammo) system is quite unfun as well. If I'm fighting a challenging boss, I don't want to have to stop doing that just to grind shells for an hour.

The exploration feels quite off as well. They have added so much stuff, that most exploration doesn't lead to Hornet getting stronger. What I want to find is mask or nail upgrades, so that it feels like my character is progressing. But all I find is random items, or tools that I wont use because of the ammo requirement.

Beneath all of this, there is a great and polished game. But it's hidden by piles and piles of pointless stuff. I can't recommend it, as it is now.

Best co-op game I have ever played.

it's aight.

It's all I hoped it to be, and more!

I love this game. And I love Paradox.

I have played this game since it launched and enjoyed it thoroughly. The developers are not afraid of fundamentally changing the game to make it an even better experience.

However, for over a year the game has had terrible performance issues. If you play the game into the lategame stages it becomes extremely laggy, even on modern hardware. Add to that a lack of communication from Paradox on this issue and I am nothing but disappointed.

As it is now there is no reason to buy this game as you will never be patient enough to play a round to completion. Until this issue is fixed I can not recommend this game.

This game is really good.

This game causes some serious motion sickness.

Do not buy! Requires you to register an arbitrary account with Square Enix just to play the damn game! That is NOT okay