this is almost certainly at least partially a skill issue but i keep losing and i can't really tell why. the visual feedback for what you missed, especially when you actually game over, is very unclear. this is in part because it just deletes all the nearby notes, so you can't even tell where you were in the pattern when you failed. i think i would have appreciated a "no-fail" system or similar as i don't think i get much out of losing here besides an inability to really see the game through to the end.
it does feel like to me i kinda have to focus on the visuals over feeling the rhythm, as you're seemingly not punished at all as long as you hit the spacebar sometime when the circle is intersecting, and i can't always tell audibly what the circles are supposed to line up to in the track (this may be because i don't know what to set the offset settings to, although i was playing the download version). one part i really noticed this was the sections with the, iirc, three up dots + the one left dot, i just played all 4 basically in a 4/4 pattern, and didn't get punished at all (although, to be fair, the reason i was playing them was as 4/4 was because that's how i was feeling them, so i guess it worked out).
the idea of laying out the rhythm on a spiral like this is very cool. it's not a visualization i've really thought about before, and i can really see the ADOFAI vibes--in theory, all sorts of interesting rhythmic ideas can be represented just through different kinds of angular relationships on the spiral, and it seems like a neat representation. it's also pretty intuitive specifically because it's a circle.
i often find hypnosis-styled spirals pretty hard to look at but this one was pretty nice. there were definitely moments where i could just zone out and stare into the spiral (although, not if i wanted to avoid failing some notes). i think the spiral concept really does work here, both from a rhythm game perspective and from a more kink perspective.
the music is really neat. it is a bit repetitive, but this actually works really well for selling the hypnosis theme more. i definitely enjoyed it.