Up to the first ending the game is absolutely remarkable, a clever, fun, simple, and straight to the point Metroidvania that I could easily recommend to anyone. I love how you naturally end up experimenting with your upgrades and it opens new doors. Maybe a couple questionable checkpoint placements, but extremely well put together on the whole.

Everything past that I respect and totally see the appeal for a certain type of player... but it just kinda got worse for me the more you have to scrape the corners for tiny bits of progression. Just not really my thing. I'm sure it'll make someone an interesting Youtube video down the line.