[Replayed on hard mode]
It had a little Dark Souls energy before I got the blue tunic, with some bosses being able to one-shot me on full health.
But with an adult brain the puzzles are basically window dressing, let's not kid ourselves.

I do like how destitute and apocalyptic the Dark World feels though (with masked cults awaiting the end of days), and that if you pay attention you can match most characters to an other world counterpart, and lastly a lot of the music being very well-thought out, working off of leitmotifs from the series or this game in specific (My favorite is when Zelda is captured by Yuga and you hear Zelda's lullaby but played very dissonantly and with an altered chord progression to underline the vileness of this situation, it's fantastic).

P.S. Don't know what's with the off-rhythm metal drum in the Swamp Palace, it's weird.