It'sa toughie! The subject matter baked within is - as usual! - a bit hard for me and my seemingly unempathetic, gamer exclusive brain to fully appreciate as usual with your work! But if we're talking tha GAMEPLAY I like the in the moment feeling of trying to draw circles around guys in hope of them fusing together for mad point collecting fun~

 I just wish maaaybe the hitboxes for the collisions on those little dots bumping into eachother was a biiit more generous? Often I found myself just sitting around waiting for the fusions I wanted to happen, only for them to never! And I KNOW I'm still getting points either way if I play it right; with them giving points every collision they have with my walls, and perhaps increasing those sizes too much would end up trivializing things. The most satisfaction I got from the game though was from the boxing those guys in and scooping them up type gameplay, and it was a TAD frustrating to do all that seemingly perfect, only for them to still dart around willy nilly and never unite themselves! All while turrets are spawning on top of me, and now my number in the top left is a THREE and I'm fucked forever, and ahh it was real chaotic at times...

Am I being incentivized to bloody up other parts of the playspace while I wait for them to do what I want? Should I be spending a potential great amount of my resources firing off that wild blood bullet and hope it bounces in areas I can play off of? I can't say. I felt safer more often just hovering within the blood I already drew up to avoid killing myself and having to run through everything all over again.

Speaking of that! Thought it was also pretty demoralizing to lose in this one at times! Not because it's egregiously long or anything, but because crawling UPWARD when in those connecting tunnels between the major playspaces was just slow enough that it felt kinda awful to do all those over again if I happened to ever lose. Like I can FEEL myself getting better at collecting the dots more optimally, but I still have to CRAWL my way through those hallways just the same everytime. INSUFFERABLE >:)

And ahh that's probably petty, right? There needs to be empty space here n there for pacing purposes and so I have time to read the text, yeah? I thought the text that appeared when you leave an area was sometimes so lengthy though, and the length of the hallway leftover that'd lead to the next screen would be so short that I feel you're way more pushed into sitting still and waiting til you finish reading it all before moving on over doing movement and reading at the same time. A tad too start and stopish I thought. I especially felt like reading first to make doubly sure I didn't misread something due to the fontsize being of the microscopic variety and some letters looking like others at times.

Bitchin' about the fontsize now? Ahh it's complicated. I hella appreciate the systems at feature here. Just don't IMMEDIATELY think its my bag. Deliberately harming myself to regain blood in this never sat right with me either, but that's probably just because I don't think I've PLAYED anything where I'm rewarded to such an extent for taking damage? Feels very anti-conventional-video game to me right now...

I may not be in LOVE with it, but we've certainly got a series of mechanics smartly working together here. You get points for all the right actions, and collecting things felt GREAT; with the video game as hell BLOOD+ get text blurbs and their juicy sound effects popping in for doing well. I loved that. I especially dug the final room in the game. Where it did that nebulous thing in games where suddenly the standard gameplay got thrown out in a sense, and it was JUST about irreverently filling the screen with blood over any considerate libble-rabble ass encircling of enemies type gameplay. I only ever got that far thanks to the casual 'coloring book mode'; which is a pretty badass name thinking about it. Considering this game is all about BLOOD and GUTS and OTHER such horrible things, and coloring books are for babies. What a beautiful contrast...~~~

COOL GAME you already know ahh I don't know what to say. Often with your shit I feel you're just so on a different level than me mentally, and I couldn't POSSIBLY give the level of respect probably warranted! Inherently intimidating! I mean just look at it!

Was that one level with the dog actually just a pixelated image of your own? Such a chaotic blur of images in one's final moments on the space hell prison...