Extremely high quality game with absolutely no learning curve aside from the first area. Every upgrade out of the few you're able to get, gives you an almost meaningless advantage while the difficulty continues to ramp up. Regular enemies dodge and shoot or rush you. Too many enemies, bosses, and traps do double damage. No areas give you a break. There are traps and combinations of enemies that give you little leeway whether you want to run or fight. The map system still sucks; requiring you to buy a map and have the compass equipped at all times. When you find a quiet area, be ready because you're either fighting a miniboss, a boss, or a squad of enemies. You will be forced to waste hours watching video guides, or try to find other people to give advice, but again, most upgrades' advantages are miniscule. The biggest kick in the pants is that the developers clearly read a book on what human beings' fastest reaction time is, and went with exactly that number for every enemy and boss attack in the game so healing is a chore, attacking is a chore, etc. But the worst part honestly is the fandom around this series. Any criticism and you get swarmed. I give this game a 2. It could be a 5 if it treated its players with respect, and not just experts, speedrunners, and people who rest their ego on their skill in, an admittedly very cool, notwithstanding the relentless abusive difficulty, videogame about bugs.
