This game starts out as Zelda by way of Dark Souls, but by the end it's Zelda by way of The Witness? Not since that game have I felt the urge to pull out a pen and paper to solve puzzles, and though the rewards for them were not always amazing, it felt good to solve.

The combat is is very much not for me though. Too hard, and the segment towards the end when you lose all your ability upgrades made me genuinely angry. Why did I spend all that time hunting for upgrades just to have them taken away?

Some of the puzzles were also a bit too obtuse. Maybe I'm just dense, but I don't know how I was supposed to realize the fairies existed without a guide. There are obviously mentions of something called the GOLDEN PATH in the manual, but not enough for me to understand what it was without looking it up.

Even with all that, this game is something very special, and I wish more games existed like it.