Very cool visual style. Certainly lives up to it's name.
The impact and game-feel of the attack is very satisfying.
The movement is a bit sluggish. Here's a rundown of what I gleaned. Sorry if I'm off-base with any of it, and it's just my own skittishness.
- Holding left/right doesn't persist between rooms.
It's a small thing but it did bother me. - There's quite a big windup on starting to move. Maybe it's a nice flourish for the character revving up, but it felt a little awkward, especially in a game where you need good reaction time. It's not super annoying, but it's just enough to throw you off in the heat of gameplay.
- You direction isn't locked during a dash.
- I think the game queues up dash, and given the somewhat sluggish response, I would sometimes double dash when I didn't intend too, mainly when fighting the final Boss.
- Assuming I'm right about the queuing, the game locks your direction when attacking so you can strafe, but I don't think it lets dash over-write your direction if it's queued up, meaning I sometimes dashed in the wrong direction.
The enemies were good, and it was fun to work around their interlocking attack behaviours, but given I couldn't find a value for those collectable blue cards, I spent most of the game just dodging them.
Actually, I have no clue what those gold capsules did either.
Really enjoyed the final Boss. (Thanks for that Checkpoint in the upper room; it made retrying not too much of a hassle.) Though, I can't tell if I beat it yet or not. It seems to explode for a few frames then the game restarts. So either I beat it, and that's just what the game does, or it has a death attack that keeps wiping me out. XD
I've got some gameplay to upload. Just know I did get a little turned around. That was partly because there weren't a lot unique things around to orient me (maybe add some Neon Signs if that doesn't muddy up the clean art-style too much) but also I was stopping and starting a lot between records so that probably contributed.
EDIT: Going up - MM21 - Neon Blackout 1/5