I think it's literally just really fucking hard sometimes. I love that feeling of isolation, I love the vibe you get in Latria.
But like, it is actually just fucking hard sometimes. I died so many times trying to get to the 4-2 boss last night. You have to be on, at all times. You are never allowed to auto pilot when you're breaking new ground in that game. If you're on your hundredth run through 1-1 yeah you can be a little more chill, but I'm at a fairly decent level, and getting beat the fuck up over and over again at the part with the skeletons cliff in 4-2. I'm dying again and again I'm thinking to myself, yeah this is a summer breeze isn't it guys lol. I get by it and die at the boss, spend another half hour trying to get back to him.
Like I found it difficult to fight the skeletons on the cliff, because I can't swing with right arm and the path is too narrow to fight on. If I go slow to cheese them one at a time, I'm getting wrecked by the flying mantis shots and it's still not easy to kill them one by one on that path. If I try to run past them to fight them on the more solid footing next to the arrow skeleton, I get fucked just attempting it - maybe one time I can't maneuver behind the skeletons and just fall off cliff trying, another time I do get by but get smoked by arrows/mantis arrows/ a single skeleton sword attack now my stamina is gone, I need to heal, and I have 3 skeltons on top of me, no room, and mantis shots coming. This is not an easy game.