The first thing that hits you is the run cycle. Our demon girl, redhead with horns obviously, she has this stutter in her sprite animation. A tiny hitch every fourth frame. It's not a glitch, I don't think, but it makes her look like she's limping slightly. Or maybe her heels are just killing her. Relatable. The grim reaper chasing her, he doesn't have that hitch. Smooth as hell, ironically. I got fixated on it, that tiny stumble, watching it repeat while I slammed the arrow keys into a corner and got stuck on a rock. The game didn't care.

So you're running. Hell looks like a prog rock album cover vomited onto a side scroller. There are tentacles. Of course there are tentacles, popping out of the ground like daisies. You hit one and the sprite animations get real specific. It wraps around her thigh, her waist, a fat one slides over her shoulder and hooks under her arm. The struggle mechanic is you mash spacebar. But here's the thing they don't tell you. If you just... stop. If you let the orgasm meter climb while this monster's got her suspended, her expression cycles through four stages of distress and then the fifth is something else entirely. The animator knew what they were doing. The way her back arches, just slightly, before the game punishes you with a huge energy drain. Worth it. Every single time I did it on purpose. The oral scenes with the smaller imps have this weirdly tender quality? Like, the imp is still a horrible little gremlin, but the close-up sprite work on her face is more detailed than the entire running background.

The runner part is actually the worst. The jump timing feels off by like half a second, I could never land on the floating platforms consistently. Got me killed more than the monsters. The reaper, if he catches you, it's a game over screen that's surprisingly tame. A bit of a letdown after all that tentacle business. Maybe a DLC where you play as the reaper? No, that's stupid. The audio is just one looping metal riff that drills into your skull. I muted the tab and played something else. The whole thing feels like a fever dream you'd have after scrolling through certain boorus at 4am, that specific vibe where you're not sure if you're supposed to be horny or just deeply confused. The demon girl's hair clips through her shoulder in the victory pose.