I got to about 10th or 11th stage and just stopped. The bosses were tough but I could lock in for a while and just say to myself that I wasn't stopping until I beat the boss I was stuck on.

I got tired of dying on the damn diverse array of shady jumps they made sure to pack the game with. All of the jumping and floating and evading lame death took a lot out of me. For some reason, I can live better with 'tough boss that you have to play well against for 10 minutes to win' than I can with 'do this absurd serious of pit jumps and spike avoidance exercises'.

I might go back to it to see can I take it the rest of the way. Or I might new school it, watch a vid of someone else doing it, and call it a day.

>Fantastic decision.
>I figured with the next wave of COVID coming I'd be stuck home
>even more than I have been and needed something that required
>my attention and brain moreso than Netflix binging.
>
>Grabbed a Switch since it seems more "welcoming" to a new
>gamer and I'm a complete noob when it comes to non-sports game
>(and even sports games at this point as they've become too
>convoluted and I don't even play those anymore either).
>
>Right off the bat I knocked out Pokemon Let's Go (loved
>Pokemon blue as a kid and having basically a ported version
>with updated graphics and some mechanics changes was an
>obvious first purchase) and then proceeded with Odyssey, my
>first Mario game ever and the first platformer I ever "beat."
>
>From there I started researching "similar" games, grabbed SMBU
>Deluxe but was meh on it, but eventually Ori and the Blind
>Forest popped up during a sale and I downloaded the demo and
>immediately purchased, played through, learned what a
>"metroidvania" was and started digging from there.
>
>Grabbed Hollow Knight and Steamworld Digg 2. SD2 was a little
>too slow for me, though I love the concept of dig, collect,
>upgrade, dig again, etc. I'll get back to it here and there
>but it doesn't grab me for long stretches. Hollow Knight I
>found too difficult and I don't like that I'm never sure I'm
>going in the right direction. I gave it ~5 hours but it's not
>for me.
>
>Next up I saw Celeste pop up on sale, a game I heard great
>things about. Super hard, but super forgiving, and instantly
>became a favorite of what I've played, and the first game I
>went back and played more (as well as started a fresh run)
>after I beat it.
>
>Though met with skepticism, my two friends told me I *had* to
>play Hades. The idea of dying and having to start all over
>turned me off and scared me (I died like 2k times in my
>Celeste run) but man am I glad I listened to them. This game
>is THE SHIT. I've escaped like 8 times so far through 50+ runs
>and I'm still finding it super fun and the right amount of
>challenging without adjusting the difficulty. Definitely a
>game I'm gonna do a run here and there for a LONG time.
>
>Currently working through The Messenger. I love 2d
>platformers, though I hate boss fights. I kinda just want to
>do puzzle/problem solving to get through levels, boss fights
>tend to be too difficult for me (at least in this game) and it
>teeters on ruining the overall experience.
>
>I downloaded Dead Cells since I loved Hades so much and it was
>half-off, but I'm gonna wait a while before I start.
>
>So, given all that, any recommendations for a new gamer who
>likes 2d platforming (and apparently rogelikes and a little
>metroidvania) would be appreciated!