There’s a great game in here, but there were some big issues that really took me out of the game. Frostfields was absolute hell. If I defeated those flying guys AND destroyed their habitat multiple times, then why do they keep on respawning?? Even a day later they respawn. Why make enemies only the Ice guys can fight if they’re so darn weak and die in two hits?

I was originally having so much fun just exploring and backtracking and trying to find it what I’d have to do next, but after the longest time I’d still end up being stuck. And most of the time I literally knew the answer, but I didn’t throw my spriteling far enough, or I didn’t have the freaking honey in my inventory. Or I didn’t know that I could suck up those barblings on that cliff, because it didn’t look like I could!!! I could go on and on like I am already, but there were so many examples where just a little push, hint something would’ve saved me from wasting time, getting really frustrated at this game and feeling guilty for looking stuff up.

Then the final boss was extremely annoying, so much so that I FINALLY switched to wanderer or whatever to make it easier because I just wanted to be done with this game. For example, in the adventurer version of the boss, I’m standing next to the enemy and then during the cutscene I lose 3 hearts of damage. DURING A CUTSCENE. Or when I just randomly take damage when the crystal feels like it, for seemingly no reason. If one of the two people dies, then you’re done, and it’s so difficult to manage two health bars and two people walking at different speeds (since one is ahead of the other) with all the chaos that happens in that fight. Or when Kirby gets crystallized, and one time she was behind the big non-moving crystal boss so I couldn’t even see her. Then I didn’t even realize when she got out, and by the time I did she was already dead and I had to start over, since she got killed.

Uggghhhh. I liked this game so much at the beginning, but it honestly doesn’t guide you enough. There should be optional hints or something. Or if you craft the honey then say that that’s the clue you need so you won’t have to do trial and error by bringing it to Aatto every single time. There are just so many little quality of life things that would be so nice, but just aren’t there that ruined this for me. It’s worth a play, but I’d say on wanderer, I don’t even know why adventurer was an option in the first place if those flying guys and exploding frogs and stone pear mini bosses respawn every. single. time.

I thought I was like solid at Tetris, but in order to actually enjoy this game I think I need a very easy mode cause 10 speed starting 60/90 lines in ain’t working for me. (Especially when it takes forever to get there.)

My heart rate seemed to stay stable, but I was also just dying too much for it to be a nice experience?

Edit/Addition: Really do think there should be a chill difficulty because I was not able to enjoy this game the way I wanted and I was suffering through it getting stuck every few levels. With a game that’s supposed to be a meditative journey, why not have a chill difficulty?? Having challenge for the other difficulties is perfectly fine, but why does changing the difficulty to easy literally change nothing!? I’m a complaining baby, but I think I still make a valid point. I was expecting a relaxing chill experience, kinda as advertised and ended up getting really frustrated and annoyed (not to mention some of the music really takes you out of it (by some I mean all of the ones with vocals)). It’s bad (like pretty bad) cheesy pop and I’m saying that as someone who enjoys very basic pop. All electronic instrumentals would’ve be fine, no? Either that or Madeleine McQueen should’ve been the one singing 🤷🏻‍♀️ Video game soundtrack QUEEN!