Edit: I'm gonna change my review now, I feel like after some time has passed and since the developer changed/fixed a lot of my gripes with the game, I can say that it is a decent game now. I'm gonna leave the rest of my review untouched, so everyone can keep reading my initial response to this. The most frustrating parts for me, no longer exist in the way they did, so it is hard to put it into a clear rating now. Probably jumped from 3/10 to 6/10 or something. I think many people will still find it too... "simple"? of a game, but there is enough fun to be had, if you don't mind.
Original review:
Okay, I played through this completely, I had a lot of fun here and there, but overall I simply can not recommend this to anyone, unless I want them to rage. Not even because the game is hard, but because it just feels.. bad. (heh)
For example: The submarine parts are just something I don't want to play in an metroidvania/platformer and the controls felt incredibly bad on top of it, and this game already controls a little weird from the get go.
Another one would be that the mechanics aren't very well instructed.
You are supposed to just know that you need a magnet for a new kind of platform, that at first just looks like vines. So I tried several times to grab them in any way I could think of and almost quit, but after explaining all my problems about it to a friend, I noticed a spark on the map, that wasn't just supposed to show you a scary place, but it was the needed magnet powerup.
The same thing happens later with some kind of zelda like maze, that I didn't know, if you had to have gotten the correct path somewhere before, but I did enough trial and error, until I finally arrived somewhere. (Btw. after changing the review: Yes, there is a map for it somewhere, so I didn't have to do it like I did, but I didn't know that)
I think you needed to go the correct direction, like 11 or 12 times. There was no clue to help you figure out how you were supposed to know where to go. So I tried again and again, writing down my solution every single step further. It was a pain and I almost quit, because after 10 symbols, I still wasn't through and thought it was pointless. (If only I knew)
Last is the bosses.. knowing what to do, they aren't that bad, but figuring it out, especially once you have the groundpound attack, was very weird. My first try to hit the bosses in which I was supposed to use it, they never took damage. I wanted to throw that move out the window multiple times aswell, as it often got used, just while climbing up, even though I made sure to not touch down whatsoever... there are more buttons, just give this ability its own button. This was a very frustrating ability, once you had it. Also having to use it multiple times on stonebricks, just made it bug out, if you wanted to go fast and sometimes did nothing. So I almost didn't realize I needed to use it, because at first, nothing happened. (I think it got its own button now, I'm rewriting some things that sounded weird from past me)
To the last boss.. oh boy. You get hit all the time, even though the attacks aren't even anywhere close to you. Also, why do I have to randomly fight a half functional starfox clone boss in a platformer game anyway?
I had lots of fun too, but most of it, because I was laughing at how bad things were. There definitely exist worse games and in my own library, this game isn't even in the worst tier I put my games in, but I can only click "yes" or "no" here. and for the majority of people, I believe a "no" is more representable. (Nowadays, after lots of fixes I'd say a yes will probably be better, even with some of its mistakes)
