Excessm did a lot of things right but as much as I love Super Punch Boy, MC is WAY too powerful. I mean, if you play at the normal difficulty you can knock down most of the girls with a few smash punches. Also the latest girls barely fit the boxing theme given that they fight with actual metal weapons.
I like the proportions he went with but there are two girls that were WAY too big. If you've played it you will know exactly which two I am referring to. As for the comparison between Super Punch Boy and Excessm's other games, if the girls were the same size as in their other game than it wouldn't make as much sense for MC to struggle against them given how easily he can fight off hoards of women. Their larger size was meant to convey a sense of fear but given how easily most of them go down the gameplay undermines the scenario. Excessm mentioned in an early post about the game that he (Originally) wanted to make the girls get bigger the more angry they get in the ring.
Yeah, I have an idea but honestly all of them are too big for me. However the reason MC can fight hordes of women in the early games is due to special weapons, without them you're going to have a hard time even in the original pixel art games that only allowed you to push and not punch (I totally didn't go through the level disarmed on purpose, no no).
The sense of excitement or fear that you get from being helpless is already there with the proportionate women in the early games and look it, they are still big. Those girls are not skinny by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe the school girls in the original One Shota are kind of skinny (?) but that's the only enemy type that ever appeared that was more normal, every other woman was athletic in some way. Thick volleyball girls, thick business women, acrobat girls. They just weren't literal behemoths.
I'm not trying to discredit ExcessM's new work, I'm always staying updated with their games regardless. But if I have to tell you which games I >keep< on my hard drive then it's One Syota, One Syota Kariyume, Parade Buster and Smash Boy.