Spent countless hours trying to figure out the chain dash rhythm. So many hours that I have gotten to the point where the game become so unbearable frustrating from trying to even get the chained dash to be consistent, that I decided that I was no longer having any fun playing the game, and I have lost I any motivation to continue or finish it. By the time I got to the crystal spike area in the Western zone, and watching my character for the 100th time, with full health, miss the timing by a half a second, then get stabbed, skid, stabbed again, skid, and stabbed for a final death. I just quietly put down the controller, went to the main menu and uninstalled the game. Not worth by sanity, because the devs decided to implement a chain-dashing technique that is required to progress through the game that does not fit the rhythm of the game mechanics or the background music. I tried endlessly to get the rythyym down but the punishing demand of the timing makes this game not worth my time. I have watched videos and read articles on how to properly chain-dash, but after 42+ hours into the game, I can't get it to work. So I am disappointed in not being able to finish the game, but also can't take any more of the frustration of countless attempts to practice in open areas and not get anything close to what I am seeing in these "tutorial" vids. The only 7 chain-dash streak I was able to get didn't make any sense on how I did it. So I won't give the game a bad review or anything like that, just couldn't perform a mandatory technique for game progression so that is a bummer.
