I really enjoyed this!
However I think I soft-locked myself - I managed to brute force my way through the RGB fireball knights on the old road using some lucky timing and persistence - then eventually got stuck against a knight with the same RGB fireballs but would throw another and had a shield.
I couldn't beat this guy so I ended up rewatcing the trailer on this page and realised I was supposed to have throwing knives at this point but couldn't manage to get my way back
Still, really enjoyed myself and it has a super engaging fighting system and has that classic Nintendo hard difficulty