As for Core, all of the collectibles were pretty easy for me to find and figure out how to get. There's less paths, so I died far less trying to find secrets as well. I did spend an awful lot of time jumping on those godforesaken fire blocks trying to figure out how the launch angle worked on them. Those were probably responsible for 50% of my deaths. (2/2)

I went for all s and collectibles and I severely misinterpreted a few of them. First, to get the to the left of checkpoint 18, I thought I was hitting max cloud jump height and I had to pull of some insane strats. It turns out I actually wasn't waiting the right amount of time to jump high enough with the cloud and racked up ~100 deaths there. A lot of my other deaths came from exploring and trying to find the green irregular hexagon crystal and white circle crystal. Summit felt pretty easy, but getting all collectibles gave me quite a lot of deaths. I don't look at guides much and many times, I'll fall to my doom making sure there are absolutely no secrets anywhere. I also had an absurd amount of deaths on Forsaken City since I did the dashless golden immediately after chapter 2 (probably should've waited longer before attempting that). (1/2)

1000 deaths on summit but only 300 on core? You and I are polar opposites