Yup now the dodging is more achieveable.
Well, i continued playing the game, it took time but i managed to get the item on the secondary path that you mentioned (which was a really useful later), the red hooded will-less are tricky because i still dont know very well the reach in their attacks, but surviving them took less time that surviving the fights with the regular will-less before you added the short animation in their atacks.
It took me a lot of time to realize that there was a path near the first shortcut that i mentioned previously, it's unclear what's a path and whats a wall, once i realized it the rest of the paths in next parts of the map were easier to find, but it wasn't intuitive at first.
The drop rate in red seeds and only having only one save point so far is vexing, but that level of difficulty is still enyoyable.
So far i unlocked Q and reached the part in the map with the moving plataforms.
Still enjoying the game! Godspeed