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This is the story of how I fell in love with Hopeless Masquerade. Though the game is great, I have the following criticisms:

-The flight mechanic automatically places the players in the center horizontal plane, making it difficult to dodge certain attacks, or pulling off directional heavy melee attacks.
-No dedicated block button. You either have to flick the stick in the opposite direction you're facing to block, or risk it by dashing into bullets (ie: grazing). This can become a problem during attacks that come from both sides of the screen, such as during my next criticism...
-F$#%ING MAMIZOU! Seriously, her last spellcard (the one with the rushing animals) is fricken cheap as all hell, especially since she attacks normally while the animals are free to run across the screen.
-There is (to my knowledge) no way of determining how many life bars an enemy has during story mode. This makes no sense, since the player has an onscreen counter for three lives to run through before they have to continue.
-There is no "Rounds #" option. All VS Com battles are best-two-of-three fights, which isn't long enough in my opinion.

Description
This is the story of how I fell in love with Hopeless Masquerade. Though the game is great, I have the following criticisms:

-The flight mechanic automatically places the players in the center horizontal plane, making it difficult to dodge certain attacks, or pulling off directional heavy melee attacks.
-No dedicated block button. You either have to flick the stick in the opposite direction you're facing to block, or risk it by dashing into bullets (ie: grazing). This can become a problem during attacks that come from both sides of the screen, such as during my next criticism...
-F$#%ING MAMIZOU! Seriously, her last spellcard (the one with the rushing animals) is fricken cheap as all hell, especially since she attacks normally while the animals are free to run across the screen.
-There is (to my knowledge) no way of determining how many life bars an enemy has during story mode. This makes no sense, since the player has an onscreen counter for three lives to run through before they have to continue.
-There is no "Rounds #" option. All VS Com battles are best-two-of-three fights, which isn't long enough in my opinion.