While a great project for what is essentially a one man effort, the combat is severely flawed and suffers from a multitude of flaws that damper the enjoyment and contribute to its pervasive feeling of stiffness. Also, only in the demo does the game allow you to cancel dashes with attacks by jumping and then attacking during a dash. This technique that made combat more fluid was axed from the paid release. It would have been nice for the developer to update the demo so that it was more representative of the final game.

- Attacks barely have any forward travel making it a nuisance to attack enemies slightly away from you unless you use dash attacks
- The super has a deadzone in front of it making it null in utility when dealing with enemies that are right on top of you
- Ending lag on dash when you want to attack out of them
- Dash attack input delays your ability to use a regular attack out of a dash
- Follow up moves that don´t connect properly on the opponent, like "upload lv2"
- No way to see a demonstration of skills you want to acquire
- Charge attacks force you to attack once to transition into a charge rather than letting you hold the attack button and instantly start the charge
- Hyper armor enemies that are a bore to fight because you can´t combo them in any sort of manner
- Random upgrade system that can lead to you getting bad skills
- Post guard move has a finicky input where the headbutt doesn´t always come out
- Force to go back to the lobby every time you die instead of going straight into a fight
- Boss fights that are more gimmicks than actual encounters and require minions to make them challenging

I could go on and on, but the game needs some serious re-balance. I eagerly await to see what YOHCAN does with their next title but for now I can´t recommend this game.

To make it very clear: there is an inherent 'unfairness' to 'reviewing' a game with such as short a playtime as I have, making it almost disqualifying in and of itself. Largely, Steam reviews with little play time are mostly troll reviews with the intent of offering actually useful or constructive to say - the key word there is 'largely', as first impressions of games can be formed VERY quickly, and with so many games vying for consumer time, sticking with something longer arbitrarily serves no purpose.

The other side of this coin is that I just didn't want, and almost couldn't bring myself, to play anymore of it, despite a nice enough art style and an intriguing core conceit around corporate culture (and the expectations within), while actually having something to say about everything around the traditional structures and employee expectations of corporate culture and not just using it as an aesthetic decision. It's a real shame, as I was really very hopeful when I saw video of the game, but the reality of the execution doesn't meet the promise.

The actual act of playing the game and engaging in the game's combat system feels like a chore, particularly as the very deliberate animation priority 'system', and the choices of the design around that, feels very much at odds with the beat-'em-up/belt action form. Most games of this type feel very 'light', having a snapiness to combat input and allowing for a more 'mashy' style of play that presents satisfying 3-6 hit combos quite quickly. However, here, that is an almost sluggishness to the combat, and a feeling that each attack takes way too long or has way too many frames to be effective in dealing with the enemies you face, particularly if you have enemies on either side. Sometimes, this style can help give the individual attacks a greater heft or weight, but I don't think it achieves that here. This is escalated by the odd choice of using 'down' on the d-pad for block, which goes against all built up/expected muscle memory from years of the genre. There is something for having a vision and making design choices that run counter to 'tradition', in order to present something that is your own - I can absolutely respect that (for as much as it sounds/reads like I don't). But 'down for block', in a game like this, in the heat of the moment, is something of an unnatural input for blocking, as it's generally used for directional input or ducking - this means that you're getting hit at times when you almost shouldn't, and, for me at least, really hindered my ability to enjoy the limited amount of time I spent with it.

I know this reads as harsh, possibly even arrogant. And some criticisms could very much be hand-waved away as a 'skill issue'. This borderline diatribe serves one purpose and one purpose only: to offer MY personal opinion of the game, and to elaborate on why I had no desire to play any more of the game than I did before writing this. For those that like or love it: awesome! Do you, and that's cool. For me though, I can't recommend people buy and play this game. Play the demo for yourself and see what you think.