Nine Noir Lives! Kidd Redd tells me it is indeed excellent.
Thanks to your posts all that time ago, both she and I played the Demos, and both landed up buying our own copies to play (we share Steam libraries normally, but both wanted to be able to play without having to make sure the other wasn’t on Steam at the same time 
) As it turns out, I haven’t gotten anywhere close to playing yet, but she has, and loves it.