Holy hell this game is overrated. Like, it's decent for sure, great artstyle and presentation, but it's full of some of the most tedious backtracking EVER in the series, and has the Dark Souls mechanic of taking your money away from you if you die, and if you don't get back to your place of death, you're permanently stunted on stats and you'll truly lose that money forever if you die again. Couple that with tough as nails bosses and it's just brutal. I got like 90% of the way through and just had enough. Didn't want to bother finishing the game. I might go back later but I really don't feel like it. I discovered Rabi-Ribi and got my "tough-as-nails Metroidvania" fix from that because unlike this game, it respects the player's time and lets you quick reset back to your last (very frequent!) autosave point with a short button combination. I like hard, challenging games, but they need to meet me halfway and agree to put me right back in the action instead of wasting my time like Hollow Knight does. I will die on this hill: this game is MID.