i don't personally find this game hard, just very frustrating
specially combat, the idea of you attacking with your dash is nice and all, but the fact you have two buttons for each dash direction makes it very confusing
double that with the fact that if you want to dash to a direction you have to click the mouse button opposite to that direction, while attacking you need to click the one pointing to that direction and it just causes the whole experience to become confusing
i spent the whole game just dodging enemies instead of engaging with them 'cause it just wasn't worth it trying to combat them with how weird attacking felt, which is a very weird thing since whenever i play a metroidvania i ALWAYS make sure to kill every enemy on screen, even if i know they'll respawn, but this game just makes me feel like combat is not worth it at all
i also really don't like the way the dash was implemented, in any other metroidvania the dashes stop or at least reduce any sort of vertical movement
i get that doing that would probably conflict with the fact of the dash being spammable, but i don't think there was a single moment where i though "wow, i really need to spam the left mouse button to get to this place"
i think this game tries to reinvent the wheel by combining movement and combat into one single thing, but it just ends up making the movement seem confusing and the combat very unapproachable
although, i have to say i really enjoyed the power ups you get after fighting the bosses(or at least the one on the red village, i stopped playing after i got to the second boss lol, but if they're all this creative then congrats dude) they really make navigating around extremely interesting
and i also enjoy the animations, i kind of get the artstyle you were going for, even if it feels very incomplete it still is interesting
although the background being the same texture as the floor do not look very good, i genuinely think you could have gotten away with just making the background black to add some contrast as the way it currently is makes everything very hard to read
plus, the mini map blocks my view a lot of the time, there probably should be a way to turn it off