I beat Dandara recently (though not the final-final boss... yet...) and found it to be a really enjoyable game. Your character moves very quickly, so you can sometimes skip past danger - or you might find that an enemy just follows you and you need to be more careful and tactical. I'd also definitely read a setting bible for this game. There's a lot of cool lore hidden away here, and I'd love to know how it all started. My major complaint is that there are a few brutal difficulty spikes, and I found myself wondering whether I was in the right area or whether I had skipped forward too far too early. (The final boss on the "good ending" is one of those spikes. One day, Giant Weird Eyeball.... one day...) Still, I had fun and would definitely recommend this to fans of metroidvania games.
