to be precise the last checkpoint I had was next to the fire guy.
and as I said, you get there the first time and light the lantern, so game saved and health restored.then you play for ages, getting the hammer ability, fireball ability and whatnot, doing the long segments to each of the levers for the 3 lever door .and die somewhere along the way.well, rip progress.EVRYTHING done or collected after the checkpoint is gone and has to be redone and recollected.even sh.t as simple as burning the vhine wall right there.
and as said, you naturally come by that checkpoint a few times while doing stuff.but can you , like any common sense would dictate, save there and basically save your current progress you have done?nope, cause lantern already lit and you cant save there anymore.
so you would have to go back to the (now unlit) lantern EONS ago in the last area (tons of dangers along the way back to there) to lit the old lantern.THEN go back all the way here to relight the current lantern.
so a 2 way trip so you can save on the same lantern again.
while dying anywhere in between obviously resets your progress on levers and stuff.
buig PITA that you cant do something as simple as "yo, I collected a health u, got the fireball ability and pulled 2 of 3 levers, lets SIMPLE AND EASY save on this areas about only lantern once again. ah nope, gotta do a world trip twice cause damn, one time use savepoints only I guess?"
Nuff said.
everything else about combat with its hitboxes, OBLIGATORY abilites like fireball unable to be done cause you lack energy for it, etc. were alrady mentioned by others as well.
sure the game is good, otherwise I wouldn't be playing it.
just sucks that you cant jsut walk to that one lantern you know in the area and save there whenever you feel like it.
oh and just realized:backtracking apparently isnt a thing either:just loaded the game up, as mentioend next to the chor fire guy.thought I should maybe go back to nina since I have like 336 crystals which have literally no use except buying stuff in her shop.
well 3 meters to the left and... oh yeah, there was a 2 lever door at the exit.which is not closed cause the levers arent active since some developers resets levers and everything upon death/respawn.and of course the levers needed are all somewhere on the other side of the door.
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