Really enjoyed this game.
While the enviroments feel a bit bland, and Strider himself IS increadibly bland, the mechanics are really solid and with any other metroidvania when you get the upgrades to get rolling, you just never stop.
Also the achievements are kinda easy, now scowering every bit of the map to find that collectable you missed in any metroidvania is always a chore but for example the speed run achievement is increadibly leneant, the ingame timer pauses whenever you pause and when you die and return to the check point you the timer goes back to when you got that check point, I got that achievement by accident in my first run cuz I didn't focus so much on collecting stuff and just tried to get used to the game.
Also, the hard mode clear and normal mode clear achievements don't stack, so you need to do 2 separate runs if you want all of them.