I hand on heart think it’s one of my favourite games of the past decade but it’s not everyone’s thing.
It’s not minigames but they did kinda market it that way when they revealed it, it’s essentially a shorter hack and slash game but the levels usually have a genre shift gimmick of some kind. Mechanically speaking it’s more complex than most NMH games combat-wise. NMH3 inherits the cooldown stuff from it but has fewer abilities overall. It’s got a lot of fun stuff in its narrative interludes and feels like a weird love-hate homage to games as a hobby (and profession to an extent) to me.