so, I beat the game... but I have NO idea what was going on. it was a little esoteric. Also, it wasn't a metroidvania in that is didn't have guided non-linearity and utility-based exploration. Maybe those aspects were not added yet, but I just don't see it atm. combat was decent though, and the music set the time very well.
Also, the text crawl at the beginning was VERY hard to read.