Its too difficult. Stamina regeneration takes way too long after a escaping a tie. The blue fairies continues to attack you even after out of the screen. The fairies have a huge advantage in combat since that they can attack vertically and diagonally whereas I have to jump and attack which is very difficult with a whip. The whip only attacks in a horizontal straight line so timing is very difficult. I find that resetting to the start of the map very annoying because I died way too much time for my liking. And then if you go back to the previous zone the enemies gotten free. That is so unfair.
For the positives, I like the art style and animation, especially the struggling one. However it gets stale and boring way too quickly with how quickly the enemies kills you.
Overall, I think it needs rebalancing, and a difficulty selector the most in the next update.