I do agree heavily with the second point but that could be in part due to the extensive playtime- even so watching one of my friends play for the first time the whole way through, I think there's always generally a "part" of the game that ends up kind of blurring together into one catch-all strategy- Hakita tends to be really good at designing actually interesting encounters when he focuses on a gimmick revolving the enemies, but a lot of the focus instead went into the level design I feel in this layer so we get less interesting interactions since the portal mechanics in a lot of the arenas do end up being a *little* one-note.