Fun/Frustrating
Pretty fun, but a lot of things make the game more frustrating.
-Like everyone has said the controls are very floaty/unstable. A lot of games seem to be doing that lately, but it's not progressive it's just rage-inducing. Yoshi's Story anyone?
-Enemy movement can be unpredictable making it hard to chain combos. I'm not talking about the jumping crabs, just the basic enemies. For these kind of fast-paced games you want as little to think about as possible, and not worrying about where the enemy is going to move helps.
-The dash system is cool, but the fact that the hitbox can be hard to find on enemies sort of takes away from gameplay overall including dashing.
-There's huge recoil when you get hit making it very easy to die. This is a huge problem in hard mode since you start with two health. Get hit, then fall to your death. I understand you want it to be difficult but there's a difference between hard and frustrating.
-Graphics and ST are fine, but being able to change quality is always a nice feature.
I guess as a whole the game is good, but gameplay definitely hurts the appeal. It's not impossible to play, and getting combos is actually easy if the enemies are in the right place at the right time. But dying and losing all the bonus health can be enough to cause a ragequit especially on hard mode. It was a great, simple, concept, but the complications with the gameplay take away from it. If you're planning on a sequel (which you should be) just tweak the controls and take away or at least lessen the knockback.