Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages

I want to like this game more however, it felt dated from the day of release. The tropes are so long gone. There is never a feel of discovery and wonder because it's just a clone of so many game from the last 20 years. Somebody in design forgot that "the enemy's gate is DOWN!" We need to stomp them or have a perspective that occludes them. This game just copies all the tropes but forgot the spirit of being arrested by the cops