This is one of those games where the first hour or so of the game is the slowest, most by-the-numbers boring baby game level design (albeit with a very solid art style and soundtrack) but, if you stick it out and learn how to do good movement tech with the roll, you end up running into some of the best 3D platformer levels I've seen in quite some time. There's a level in this game that's far crueler than 3D World's Champion's Road and I love it.