Not a big player myself, but I used to be a video game producer, so I caught all the references. Probably due to the nature of what the story is about, it did seem to go in circles a bit as the protagonist kept going down a level and encountering similar challenges, going down a level and encountering similar challenges. The personalities were very fun, but I found myself really wishing for a level to be completely different… Like on the swamp world of Dagobah, or Flatland, or some other completely different environment, just for variety’s sake.