the environmental storytelling is great!! they just,, kinda forgot about the fact that they needed to show other video-gamey things through it too, like why tf does this look like background art but actually causes me damage instead, and is this supposed to be a point of no return or am i just not platforming well enough? as someone who isn't a big fan of metroidvanias, this showcases that perfectly because more often than not they're just designed poorly in a way that confuses the player.