The best part of an arcade title is that moment when everything clicks, when your brain fully grasps the game's mechanics and you begin to play at an intuitive and almost instinctual level. People who yearn for spiritual enlightenment liken it to 'zen', but I've always thought it was more akin to locking into a musical groove than a form of passive meditation. If jamming out on fundamental mechanics older than this reviewer sounds fun, then dive in daddy-o. It would seem contradictory to say that a game grounded in old-school tendencies is progressive, but it toys with the traditional structure of those coin-op machines as well. Oh, this is a game about a wizard that was turned into a worm and eats through planets, by the way.
