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It's a game that does too much yet not enough at the same time. Sticks too close to the formula yet feels off. The levels were just so fucking long and hard and even though they give you tools to make the game beatable, none of them make it very fun or rewarding. I guess they must have wanted longer levels to make it feel more up to modern standards but I would have preferred either a more drastic evolution on the structure or more of a retro embrace. Not sure what that would look like since they used that trick up with 9 and 10, but their idea of modernizing it was so flat to me.

They probably should've just made X9 instead, there's so much more room to expand there without making it feel totally alien to the series