Preliminary: There's something slow and sluggish about the way the game scrolls and moves, but so far the game has given me the first Bonk vibes in terms of gameplay and level design and Sound/Look, and I love it for that. Lol this enemy

And omg lolll

Day 2

Yesss I really liked the latter parts of Stage 1. The boss brought back the first Bonk memories of continuously staying in air thanks to repeated haedbutts and beating the boss.

Yesss as always I love when you are abnormally small compared to ordinary objects, I know I mention this a lot in reviews, but it's a favorite trope of mine

I am hooked, but also gosh the movement is so jagged and sluggish. It sometimes feels like the game is in slow motion or experience sprite overload slowdown, even when it's not.

Neat touch that it's so non-linear while still feeling linear and like a pick-up-and-play action game. Basically you can just go a number of routes.

What a very very strange game lol. But it keeps my itnerest and the music and Look keep being unique and interesting. Sort of Mother/Earthbound-y in how peculiar the music is. The gameplay has some seriously odd quirks and delays, but.

They're always generous with Hearts and even the Blue Haerts after something brutal, like the Lunar area's boss.

The bonus games are a bit annoying. I try to avoid those flowers and still end up doing them. Especially in these icy and space gravity levels.

Unfortunately all the other bosses had mechancis to prevent the infinite-bonk I so enjoy from the first game and some bosses throughout the series. Also the weird gravity, swimming, etc. mechancis avoid the core fun of bonking away.

Ugh this spinning dinosaur boss takes way too many hits and there's too much waiting. Like at least give it some differnet mechanics later in the boss fight if gonna take this many hits! But only one more area after this. This should be a 4 star at highest, but this Look and Sound and the Feel being a series I find special with this chronology project may boost it.

Considering I just did a boss rush before that last boss, you'd think that was the end?

I am very grateful for the way deaths work for this final boss! The Final Trap part beat me up!

Silly and cutely cartoon-y ending. Great new tune for the credits. Now, if only there were a sunset or sunrise going with it !

Look: 9/10 Cute, great colors, and even included an ordinary-things-larger-than-you segment! (Oh wow and I forgot about the cute images I originally included above, so the 5 star this ended up at is indeed worth it)

Sound: 8.5/10 I was consistently bumping throughout! Tho none got me emotional/sentimental.

Play: 8/10 That sluggishness brought it down a half point. But it had the closest to my beloved first Bonk gameplay since, well, the first Bonk!

Feel: 8.5/10

Attachment: 8.5/10 Finally, a return to form for the series, and surely the other Bonk I play besides the first.

Overall: 8.5/10 Oh wow it did make the 5 star cut... My rating system is so broken lol. I suppose I was intensely hooked on Day 2

Completion: Main Story

Playtime: ~2h 20m