the map design is somewhat linear but enjoyable but it's dragged down by the boss fights being annoying with ever increasing HP bloat with your damage output not increasing while their output does got to tedious so I abandoned it after the penultimate boss fight

gave it another go after abandoning it years ago
it is a good game being let down by a terrible endboss fight, theprevious bosses were fun even if you failed a couple times, the final one was just tedious bullshit
didn't get the good ending because not 100% of items found

good fun game, some sections are a bit too long and some mechanics aren't explained well, like using a leaf to float or