Brilliant

Beat it with 6 hours of gameplay.
The game is good, the controls are solid, music is nice, graphics are ok.
I finished the game and even beat the secret Boss, but can I really recommend it? Maybe only to the most masochist player of the action game genre.

Putting on a YES I RECOMMEND would be the same as I say I recommend Hollow Knight, but if Hollow Knight entire game was just the Colosseum of Fools segment.

It's good. It's not worth the time (for a normal person).

There are moments here I liked, but the lows definitely outweigh the highs. Good music, some satisfying bosses like The Hand and The Edge.

Beyond that, a lot of the boss fight designs were super lame IMO. As soon as I fought The Line I had a bad feeling this game was gonna go way too far into STG territory, and I was right!! Especially The Star boss in the Rebellion ending is just ridiculous, it's definitely one of the worst bosses. In no small part due to it being fully an STG boss.

The better bosses tended to be the ones that were primarily melee focused, since melee is the one thing this game does well. Honestly, the game probably should have cut all the STG mechanics, they never really quite feel right here, and this only gets more apparent late game, with bosses like The Beat.

Overall it's not a horrible game, but there are way better out there in the genre of parry focused combat (Sekiro being the obvious one).