The game is like a very cool road trip where you're enjoying yourself, seeing strange sights, having a grand ol' time but then out of nowhere someone starts ripping some Wario tier farts while the windows are closed. The fart subsides quickly and you go back to enjoying yourself but you swear you can occasionally still catch whiffs of it even after the fact.
What I mean to say with this fart and trip analogy is to say games good but occasionally you start smelling the stinkiness of something (whether it's a specific puzzle(s), some platforming shenanigans or something else) and depending on your tolerance will write the game off as "janky Game Cube era nonsense" or a hidden gem on the system. Truthfully the game is probably somewhere in the middle of both. I just enjoyed it despite the perhaps thematically appropriate stinkiness.