The game feels like it does few things very well, and few things very poorly - and unfortunately, the parts it gets poorly drag down the experience quite a bit for me.

Firstly, the music and look of the game is great, and I enjoyed most of the stages going for the golds - the game is fine on this front, these are its strong points.

The camera control is truly awful, and while there's an "8 directional lock" mode, it doesn't feel very useful when its an ordeal to just line up the ball in the direction you want to go. There's no button to move the camera outside of moving the character as well, so if you need to turn around, you have to actually move the character all the way around to see where you're going. This leads to some rather annoying scenarios.

The arcade modes feel really poorly done as well. The first few are a total joke, and then the later ones are all backloaded with some of the most inconsistent levels in the game, where you're required to either send it and launch yourself into the air and hope you get the right bounce, or fight against the camera & inconsistency of the controls on super tight precision levels which don't fit the mechanics of the game.

Other complaints are small stuff/QoL. To retry a stage, you have to go into the menu and hit restart. There's no quick retry button. Why? This is 2026 - even if the game was made to look like a PS1 game, it doesn't have to have QoL like one too. Another is the sound/voice acting. The dude's voice saying "go!" and "goal!" every stage was really offputting to me, I had to mute the sound after the first few levels.