Love me some Parappa goodness!
I'm a big fan of the premise where this nosferatu lookin fella is trying to blend in with the new age sparkly vampires, and each life lost is his costume slipping. The difficulty curve is actually really well done. Just as I was thinking "This is cool, but It could be faster"- it got faster. And I think the symbols instead of arrow keys adds a sort of twister like mentality to things, where "pumpkin" could be any one of the four directions. Reminds me of playing Um Jammer Lammy before I really understood where the PlayStation buttons were so I kept having to look down at the controller. Really fun twist on the formula! Well done folks!