I have never been more mislead into thinking a game would be good in my entire life. On the outside, this looks absolutely gorgeous. The concept is pretty interesting, the art style is very pleasing, and the animation is absolutely on point. I was so excited to play this game, so when I actually got it and started playing, it was jarring just how garbage everything but the art style was. Walking and stopping makes you feel constantly like you're skating on ice, the level design is atrocious, the combat is confusing and extremely difficult to feel anything from, and when the player starts, they have to figure this all out on their own. When the level design is good, there's no need for a tutorial to be shoved in the player's face, so when there was no tutorial, I was rather hopeful that the game would be clever and show me how to do things instead of telling me. Yet never have I ever wanted a tutorial more than I did during the entirety of the opening level. I had absolutely no idea what was going on, and sadly, no amount of amazing artwork could distract from just how lazy EVERYTHING ELSE was in the game.

Enemy attacks are never telegraphed, and the health bar really should've been an actual BAR instead of the row of heart that acted like a bar. The player takes hits for no fault of their own and cannot avoid them at times just because of how slippery all movement is. I really don't care that this game is a remake of an older game. I don't care how faithful or polished it is. All I want is for it to be GOOD. I want it to feel like thought, care, and creativity was put behind it, not just that the visuals were finished and the rest of the developers said "eh, just do whatever with the rest of it, I don't care." That genuinely feels like the thought process of what went behind this game. I've never wanted a refund so quickly in my entire life. Please, for the love of god, FIX THIS GAME.

I have never been more mislead into thinking a game would be good in my entire life. On the outside, this looks absolutely gorgeous. The concept is pretty interesting, the art style is very pleasing, and the animation is absolutely on point. I was so excited to play this game, so when I actually got it and started playing, it was jarring just how garbage everything but the art style was. Walking and stopping makes you feel constantly like you're skating on ice, the level design is atrocious, the combat is confusing and extremely difficult to feel anything from, and when the player starts, they have to figure this all out on their own. When the level design is good, there's no need for a tutorial to be shoved in the player's face, so when there was no tutorial, I was rather hopeful that the game would be clever and show me how to do things instead of telling me. Yet never have I ever wanted a tutorial more than I did during the entirety of the opening level. I had absolutely no idea what was going on, and sadly, no amount of amazing artwork could distract from just how lazy EVERYTHING ELSE was in the game. Enemy attacks are never telegraphed, and the health bar really should've been an actual BAR instead of the row of heart that acted like a bar. The player takes hits for no fault of their own and cannot avoid them at times just because of how slippery all movement is. I really don't care that this game is a remake of an older game. I don't care how faithful or polished it is. All I want is for it to be GOOD. I want it to feel like thought, care, and creativity was put behind it, not just that the visuals were finished and the rest of the developers said "eh, just do whatever with the rest of it, I don't care." That genuinely feels like the thought process of what went behind this game. I've never wanted a refund so quickly in my entire life. Please, for the love of god, FIX THIS GAME.