Should there be some kind of portal here? Because there isn’t one, and if it’s not through the portal and instead requires the slime dash, which I can’t use—and even if it were because of the bracelets (which I don’t think they are), I can’t take them off because I need that item you mentioned in the garden, but I have to reach the garden first and I can’t.
I don’t really mind restarting the whole game if it’s a major bug, but I wanted to ask just in case.
I guess it’s a bug, because when I took off the shackles, one of those pillars in the Hive Drone area "trapped me" (I got curious.). When I respawned at the last checkpoint, that’s where I took off the shackles, and when I went to the exit door, the wolf boss was there giving me the exact same dialogue as when I first arrived at the Hive Drone area.
It was as if the level had been reset, even though I had already completed it, making it impossible to complete the area again since I had already recovered my powers. That’s my theory, anyway.