I can see why people put this game as one of the best metroidvanias out there, but it just never clicked with me at all. Controls were very weird to control, especially when you are in water, enemies felt annoying to fight most of the time and biggest reason why this game didn't click with me was the save system. Why does the punishment for your death result in you loosing all of your progress and having to redo everything again. This was annoying especially if you've beaten a boss and then you die afterwards, so now you must fight the boss again because you didn't find the save station fast enough. As to why some metroidvanias even today have this system is still baffling to me.