This game let me save the anime A.I robot catgirl gf, 10/10. Criminally underrated hidden gem of a game.

So originally I would have given this a thumbs up:
- graphics a decent enough
- gameplay is mostly quite responsive with nice poppy effects
- overal solid platformer puzzling, nothing too hard, with plenty of restore points

But this game failed massively on two points for me:
- Backtracking. There isn't any. There should be, with some portals that got implemented a week ago? But I didn't see any. There were several bits were I assumed I'd just come back later, only to find that you can't actually go back. Clearly the game wasn't designed for backtracking.
- The final boss bit. The boss-fight itself is fine (super easy in fact, but all bosses are), but then starts a metroid style 'get the hell out of here' sequence that for me will mean I'm not firing this game up again. Pretty much right away there are some ice walls you have to melt down, which happens to be the least polished bit of gameplay, because a single pixel of ice remaining will block you. Which meant I had to jump around flamethrowing a bit more and then I died because I wasn't fast enough... and then I had to do the boss fight again? Sorry that's just wasting my time there.
I generally don't like these 'keep running' sequences in metroidvanias, but to spend another few minutes on a bossfight that was already done is a no thank you for me. I'm going to watch the ending on youtube, then never touch this game again I'm afraid...

good game