Yeah, I beat the game on hard, it was intense!
The game looks clunky at very first and the non-boss enemies are basically the same between levels but in the end I had a lot of fun playing. In fact it controls pretty well and I enjoyed using the two attacks depending on the enemies ahead, you really need to make full use of both here, like using the slash at the right moment when a flying enemy comes while you're stabbing from behind a boss who's moving as that's the easiest moment to damage it. Doing that while also dodging the traps is fun and the boss fights are actually different and all very cool. The soundtrack is catchy and despite the character looking beyond weird many enemies like the bats, dragons and Ice Cream boss actually look quite nice, the dragon flames too.