Yeah… Masochism. That’s truly the single word to describe this game.

Right from the start, you're greeted by a tutorial filled with Japanese characters. The choice of Japanese feels completely out of place: while the game does support other languages, it constantly shoves oversized Japanese text onto your screen during gameplay. It doesn't look stylish at all. It feels like a forced attempt to pass itself off as a "niche" art-house title, which it clearly isn't.

After that, without any cutscenes or narrative introduction, you're abruptly thrown into learning how to run and kill little "green men." And that’s where the "fun" begins. You are given two weapon types: melee (a knife) and ranged (a pistol). The melee combat forces you into punishingly strict timing windows, and it’s executed horribly. The window to execute a knife kill lasts a second at most, but in practice, it feels like mere milliseconds. You could go through the entire game without ever understanding what you're doing wrong, ultimately relying on pure luck that the green guy just happens to die.

Standard shooting, on the other hand, feels effortless: just aim and pull the trigger once. But nobody is going to let you just shoot freely — the game chokes you with strict timing again. These green enemies don't just slash at you; they hide across the map, execute multi-hit knife combos, and shoot back. In those moments, you have to parry every single movement, followed by a tiny window where you might get to parry again before finally executing a finisher.

This level of difficulty isn't rewarding; it's just irritating. As you force yourself to adapt and mechanically repeat these actions, you stop feeling anything at all. You lose the sensation of playing a finished, cohesive product, feeling instead like you're grinding through a series of aimless challenge rooms with no real purpose.