Its weird to me that this game doesnt do much new to standout from the previous igavania games. It makes sense for the first game in a good while to be a little by the numbers, but hey, it still was a very good game. Loved dressing miriam in funny outfits and colors, loved learning the special attacks for each weapon, loved the weapon variety even tho the katana is quite easily the best one, boss fights were all pretty fun.

The game has a few issues that makes me not give is as much praise as i think the game couldve gotten out of me.
the problems i had were:
1- Item/Shard grinding being a necessity to accomplish most things was certainly a bad choice
2- Surprisingly, the soundtrack is quite forgettable. Its not anything bad, but it lacks iconic melodies.
3- For a pretty straight forward story, it sure had a lot of dialogue that didnt do anything except add to the final playtime.
4- Performance on switch is pretty bad, with unacceptable frame rate and quite a few crashes, get it on any platform but the switch for the love of miriam.

Overall tho, good game! It does hang out with the previous igavanias, and anyone that liked any of those games should play this too.