It makes me sad to hate on this one. I actually delayed reviewing this for so long because I kept trying to like it.
The combat is good, I'm a fan of the art and the music is GODLIKE.

But that movement... My god moving around in this game feels miserable. I eventually learned I'm supposed to use backdash cancels to move around, but even that doesn't feel fun or intuitive. I hate that movement is bringing this game down so much but in a Metroidvania which encourages backtracking and exploration, the movement being so bad made me not want to continue playing any time I had to backtrack.
Add to that how there's a lot of long paths to dead ends or sub-par rewards and I just couldn't push myself to keep playing.