I think this game does a LOT really well. The bosses all get killed in one hit, but you have to spend attempts figuring out how to access their singular weak spot, which is a fun challenge and is balanced basically perfectly by you also being killed in one hit. My big issue is that the environment is just too big for its own good with no easy/quick way to traverse it, so it ends up being a lot of running to the bosses, only to die within a few seconds because a lot of bosses are supposed to be killed really fast. In a world where this wasn't the developers' first game and condensed the world to just be hallways between each boss, this game would be incredible, but what we get is still a very fun game that I enjoyed quite a bit.

Saves the best mechanic and what I think would have made an incredibly interesting and fun game on its own for essentially one actual (and pretty basic) level and it makes me pretty sad because I think if they did more with it that this game would be really something special. As is though, the level design never got me too interested in its admittedly interesting core mechanics and it ended before it could really shine. Really dug the visual aesthetic of the game though, the levels seamlessly transitioning between each other in this large 3D world was pretty cool.

Basically the metroidvania for me: someone who's not great at action but loves puzzles and exploration. The atmosphere of this game is immaculate, with such a unique visual style to it that really shows the attention to detail put into the game. The world overall is very well designed, with only a select few places where I struggled to figure out what to do, and its well connected enough to where backtracking never felt annoying (altho now that im beginning my postgame egg hunt, that opinion may change). Overall an extremely well made game that can be added to the collection of "games that make me feel incompetent as a developer cuz this guy made something this good all on his own."