I don't usually write reviews but this time I would like to say something. The game is actually very good, the artwork is incredible, the mechanics of how you fight are fun and the story is exciting too.
But now comes what annoys me incredibly and now makes me write this review.
The boss fights are just frustrating. They are just difficult for the sake of being difficult. Cotton was doable as soon as you knew that the other opponents had to attack her, but even then it took a long time before I came up with the idea. The sniper boss was simply "there are 10,000 enemies here while the sniper could get you through holes that were 1 pixel wide". And then came Stonecrop. I see what the plan was, but for me this is one of the worst bosses you can do. Not only does it have an incredible amount of life, it reacts extremely quickly, every hit, no matter how small, even if it's just environmental damage, is instantly fatal. No, it also has to have homing cannon bullets. And of course an artillery, Otherwise it would be too easy, right? Here comes the phrase "Difficult, just to be difficult." very clearly throu. I'm sure the GitGud department will breathe heavily when you say something like that, but I don't enjoy it this way.
A good boss consists of two of three things. Toughness, strength and speed. Either it is strong and tough but reacts slowly, or it is fast and strong but cannot withstand much or ist fast and though, but does no damage. Stonecrop has all of them and more, making her a bad boss.
Okay, now on to how I would improve it. Give the player the opportunity to improve Sweetpea (more life, more damage, more speed, etc.) or make the boss fights easier (like dont give her Homing Cannonballs and a Artillery). Maybe with a "failure" mode that activates when you die 10 times so you no longer take damage or take less damage. Or just an option to skip the boss so that you can follow the story.
So that was my not so small complaint. But I'm writing this because the game is otherwise good, it's fun and it pisses me off that I can't finish the story because for me this boss is invincible. Even with tips and instructions, I couldn't defeat this boss. I'm not good enough to beat Stonecrop, so I can just close the game and hope that there will be an update at some point so that I can finish it.
Thank you very much for your time, the cool story, the artwork. Greetings Makoto And sorry for weird English, it’s not my First language