Although the basics are instantly familiar — jump with “A” (tap twice to do a double jump) and use your weak (X) and strong attacks (Y) to defeat enemies — there are quite a few problems here. For starters, jumping can feel imprecise and occasionally non-responsive. Using your special abilities (B button) seems finicky at times, most notably when hacking or hovering, and if you’re like me you’ll quickly abandon the right stick when selecting your active ability. It’s too imprecise and cycling through them with the bumpers works better.

In contrast to the awesome soundtrack, the voice acting is marginal at best. Perhaps it was the utterly forgettable banter between the characters that dragged it down a notch. Or maybe the voices just lacked the personality to match the rest of the game’s presentation. Whatever the case, it rates as the weakest aspect of the audio.