This game gets too much praise. Although it's not a straight up bad game, it's not as good as people try to tell you. It gets very repetitive really fast and the game elements are not that much fun to hold your attention 'til the end of the game. The fact that the game isn't very long but still too long to be fun for it's whole playtime was very exhausting for me. From the half point on i hadn't much fun with the game and was already anticipating the end so that i can be done with it. Combat is really simple but get's only more annoying. Especially in the later areas, where you're thrown with encounter after encounter, consisting of enemies which are mostly the same but in greater numbers. Don't get me started with enemies which instant kill you if you don't kill them fast enough. Endgame enemies have the mechanic to randomly teleport away, which kinda breaks the flow of combat and doesn't do anything except wasting your time & combo.
Also there are some irritating checkpoints where you have to go through another area again just to reach the point where you died, which just wastes your time. This is in particular annoying in areas where you die instantly from environmental hazards. The game doesn't do very interesting stuff with it's metroidvania elements, you just get additional attacks for color code blocks which are destroyed by those attacks - apart from wallrun or the goat fly near the end of the game there isn't anything shaking up the gameplay, and backtracking for items which are not very rewarding isn't much fun either, also because the world isn't that interesting. There is a Teleport system, although the spots are often not in smart areas which led to me not using it for the most part.

All in all i can't say that this should at all be a metroidvania, and those element feel rather forced. Could be replaced with doors & keys, this game does nothing interesting with the formula - especially as the world doesn't change as you progress the games.
If you're looking for a metroidvania, play sth else. Because most games use the metroidvania elements in a better way.

This game gets too much praise. Although it's not a straight up bad game, it's not as good as people try to tell you. It gets very repetitive really fast and the game elements are not that much fun to hold your attention 'til the end of the game. The fact that the game isn't very long but still too long to be fun for it's whole playtime was very exhausting for me. From the half point on i hadn't much fun with the game and was already anticipating the end so that i can be done with it. Combat is really simple but get's only more annoying. Especially in the later areas, where you're thrown with encounter after encounter, consisting of enemies which are mostly the same but in greater numbers. Don't get me started with enemies which instant kill you if you don't kill them fast enough. Endgame enemies have the mechanic to randomly teleport away, which kinda breaks the flow of combat and doesn't do anything except wasting your time & combo. Also there are some irritating checkpoints where you have to go through another area again just to reach the point where you died, which just wastes your time. This is in particular annoying in areas where you die instantly from environmental hazards. The game doesn't do very interesting stuff with it's metroidvania elements, you just get additional attacks for color code blocks which are destroyed by those attacks - apart from wallrun or the goat fly near the end of the game there isn't anything shaking up the gameplay, and backtracking for items which are not very rewarding isn't much fun either, also because the world isn't that interesting. There is a Teleport system, although the spots are often not in smart areas which led to me not using it for the most part. All in all i can't say that this should at all be a metroidvania, and those element feel rather forced. Could be replaced with doors & keys, this game does nothing interesting with the formula - especially as the world doesn't change as you progress the games. If you're looking for a metroidvania, play sth else. Because most games use the metroidvania elements in a better way.