The main campaign does feel a little drawn out, and I wish the axe and the purple mana weapon felt more viable to use. I ended up [final boss cheesing trickt] spamming the final boss with the blue staff because I found one soul mode charge of that weapon can remove like 70% of the boss's health..
However, the Black Labyrinth DLC knocks it out of the park. The gauntlets are a joy to use and feel good, with great sound design and animations around them, and the overall level design feels better thought out as well. Also you can punch gigantic things to create holes to move to the next area or other stuff, and I'd recommend playing it for that alone.

Damn I love New Blood but this game really didn't click for me. All the weapons and monsters are kinda boring and everything just kinda felt slapped together, even though I know this obviously took a lot of passion and work to make. People seem to like it so it's probably just a me thing tho.

Fast game play, pleasing level and art design. Satisfying weapons, fun yet simple puzzles, interesting enemies.

The only thing missing for me personally would be co-op, but it's still a very good retro-shooter.