Anyone else playing this? This game is just awesome.
The quick synopsis for those who haven’t heard of it:
It’s basically a platformer, a mix of Mario-style (some jumping puzzles,) and Castlevania-style (you attack enemies with a sword and gun.) You accidentally unleashed monsters from a puzzle/treasure world into “our” world, and now you fight them back while finding pieces of the Golden Suit, to become the ultimate Gentlemen.
But there’s another aspect…the puzzle aspect. The bottom screen slowly fills with colored blocks, as well as powerups and the enemies you kill. Their “spirit,” as it were, when it dies flies to the bottom screen and occupies a colored block. You switch to the lower screen with the X button (the main area pauses,) and you match blocks in groups of 3, 4, or 5 (people say it’s like Tetris-attack.) You can only move blocks sideways, not up or down. If you don’t eliminate the enemies by removing their blocks, they will get pushed back up onto the main screen.
But the best part is yet to come. There is a “super meter” that fills up every time you remove blocks. When it gets filled up, you can activate “Tea Time.” Rather than try and give you a description of what happens, I’ll just point you towards youtube. (you also get a view of regular gameplay before Tea Time happens.)
GOOD SHOW!
Yes, you saw that right. You turn into a giant, steampunk mech that ravages everything in sight to the tune of classical music played on an electric guitar.
The game’s difficulty curve isn’t too bad, though the later levels do get pretty hard (so I hear, I’m only on world 2.) And, like Castlevania or Metroid, you do eventually get items (like golden pantaloons, the golden pipe, etc…) that let you access secret areas in earlier levels,. It’s not AS complex as either of those, because there isn’t an open map to explore, but you can get secret “treasure” areas to get gems and gold, which you use to buy more life, better weapons, and Tea Time upgrades.
So in short: this game is awesome, go buy it. 
