[ani]

I just played through this game for the first time about a week ago. And I really loved it, as a guilty pleasure of sorts. It's mastered the idea of throwing a lot of different gimmicky gameplay scenarios at you for short enough periods of time where they're fun without actually feeling gimmicky, even if you know that they really are (Dynamite Headdy!).

The ending as contrasted to the beginning of the game really sucked (if you don't compare it to the beginning of the game, though, it was pretty good; the final boss was okay, and the second-to-last boss was awesome). In the beginning, upon getting the rifle and feeling amazingly all-powerful while at the same time fearing the very real possiblity of getting my head chopped off, I decided that, henceforth, if a game does not grab my attention within the first fifteen minutes, I will stop playing it.