Tools Up! Ultimate Edition

The game has good Art, especially the animations and music. But the many different character models do not solve the multitude of gameplay issues and bad User experience. This game is buggy and softlocked several times, the Controls feel unresponsive, the UI is occasionally infuriating, it was hard to differentiate between different tools due to similar item appearances, and some levels's design was underwhelming at best and felt amateur at worst. Many levels feel difficult because of the wrong reasons. Often the item selection wasn't responding as expected, changing selection during repeated actions without the character moving (we were using controllers, which this game seems to be designed for, as the default keybinds were... questionable). Not being able to turn down the music during levels, generally not being able to open the options menu from anywhere except the start menu seems like an oversight at best and lazy programming at worst. I have never played the original release, but for an ultimate edition (priced at 35€!) I feel these problems shouldn't exist. It feels unpolished and frankly not worth the money - more frustrating than enjoyable.