yes, this game is ridiculous and unfair a lot of the time but I found that playing with the luxury of save states makes it a much more manageable and even enjoyable challenge - you don't have to be hugely punished for each mean trick Nintendo pulls and can just laugh at the absurdly Mario Maker esque level design, load up and move on.

except the mazes, fuck them

this was a reasonably enjoyable metroidvania, if a bit forgettable and unpolished, but the prelude fight to the actual final boss was so miserably slow and unsatisfying because the opening to attack just would NOT trigger that I lost all interest and watched the ending on youtube.

i fear my willpower is too weak to get past the GODFORSAKEN WIZZROBES