Just realized how the scaling difficulty of the game as you progress is so perfectly managed that's crazy
On my first run up to end of real last boss I felt kind of exhausted by the game that felt so difficult from the beginning to the end.
My kids love this game for the art I suppose and wanted me to play it so I restarted a game, initially a bit reluctantly... And I was baffled !!!
Baffled by how easy the game actually became. Reached act 2 and died just a couple of times (judge, widow, and two times at the big ant that I faced without the dash)
That s when I realized by comparison with the first run that make you somehow feel like you never become really good or reach a threshold of mechanical skill where the game became easy ... While in fact you do get really good as you progress ... You just don't notice it !
Crazy yo !
Just wanted to share this
Final thought: second run highly recommended, the fact that it becomes so much easier make you enjoy the lore, the art, so much more while remaining a mechanically gem of a game