The amount of times I've seen people just dismiss this game because they think it's just anime fanservice or H-game :( . Whatever happened to that saying about not judging a book by its cover? While there is definitely some fanservice, there is no H-Content, and the game even actually jokes about it at one point in a scene that would make the people that are actually into H-games look bad.


But with that minirant done with, this is a very well made Metroidvania with a very balanced level of challenge. The platforming is not really difficult in most areas and gets harder near the end of the postgame areas, but it's nothing too unreasonable. The main strength of the game is in the boss fights where you will need to learn how to deal with all sorts of patterns.

There are lots of hidden items to find. Sequence Breaking is encouraged and sometimes even rewarded(there's even an achievement for doing some of them). Most bosses can be fought in whatever order you like, but there are some cases where you have to beat certain bosses to access some parts of the game or other bosses. While glitches do get patched out, there is an option in game to reenable them, so that speedruns can still use them.


The game has many difficulty options. From easy modes that anyone who just cares about the story to get through to ones that should satisfy hardcore players. The only downside with this is that the harder ones have to be unlocked. Patterns get more bullets and get faster with increasing difficulty, but at least up to the game's standard highest difficulty of Bunny Extinction, the game is for the most part completely fair. At least during what comes in the game without DLC, if you get hit, it pretty much is always your fault in some way. Some of the DLC content may not necessarily be fully balanced, but I haven't spent as much time on that to see if I'm just missing stuff that would make things fair. There are higher difficulties than Bunny Extinction in the artbook DLC, but they were cut for a reason, there's lots of unfair stuff in those ones, but some people do enjoy that as well.


The achievements in this will also be a decent challenge if you're looking for a difficult game to 100%. Not only do you have to beat almost every standard game boss without getting hit(though final and postgame bosses do allow some hits), you will have to get through a boss rush of 28 bosses in a row, no heals between rounds, and if you die you will go right back to round 1, on Bunny Extinction or harder(The artbook's Unknown and Impossible do let you have 3 of the healing items compared to BEX cap of 1, but everything else about those probably makes it actually harder than BEX even with more healing available, but I have not finished the game on Impossible yet to be able to check that)


Also nominated for Labor of Love award.

The amount of times I've seen people just dismiss this game because they think it's just anime fanservice or H-game :( . Whatever happened to that saying about not judging a book by its cover? While there is definitely some fanservice, there is no H-Content, and the game even actually jokes about it at one point in a scene that would make the people that are actually into H-games look bad. But with that minirant done with, this is a very well made Metroidvania with a very balanced level of challenge. The platforming is not really difficult in most areas and gets harder near the end of the postgame areas, but it's nothing too unreasonable. The main strength of the game is in the boss fights where you will need to learn how to deal with all sorts of patterns. There are lots of hidden items to find. Sequence Breaking is encouraged and sometimes even rewarded(there's even an achievement for doing some of them). Most bosses can be fought in whatever order you like, but there are some cases where you have to beat certain bosses to access some parts of the game or other bosses. While glitches do get patched out, there is an option in game to reenable them, so that speedruns can still use them. The game has many difficulty options. From easy modes that anyone who just cares about the story to get through to ones that should satisfy hardcore players. The only downside with this is that the harder ones have to be unlocked. Patterns get more bullets and get faster with increasing difficulty, but at least up to the game's standard highest difficulty of Bunny Extinction, the game is for the most part completely fair. At least during what comes in the game without DLC, if you get hit, it pretty much is always your fault in some way. Some of the DLC content may not necessarily be fully balanced, but I haven't spent as much time on that to see if I'm just missing stuff that would make things fair. There are higher difficulties than Bunny Extinction in the artbook DLC, but they were cut for a reason, there's lots of unfair stuff in those ones, but some people do enjoy that as well. The achievements in this will also be a decent challenge if you're looking for a difficult game to 100%. Not only do you have to beat almost every standard game boss without getting hit(though final and postgame bosses do allow some hits), you will have to get through a boss rush of 28 bosses in a row, no heals between rounds, and if you die you will go right back to round 1, on Bunny Extinction or harder(The artbook's Unknown and Impossible do let you have 3 of the healing items compared to BEX cap of 1, but everything else about those probably makes it actually harder than BEX even with more healing available, but I have not finished the game on Impossible yet to be able to check that) Also nominated for Labor of Love award.