First the good:
1. Pretty environment.
2. Good music.
3. Skeletons die if they touch the water!!! I LOVE this, and its one of my favorite parts of the game. First sidescroller Ive seen where the enemies die if they touch the water, but you can swim around as much as you want! Wonderful!!!! =D
4. Scene changes are very nice, crisp and clean (entering or leaving a cave into the outside world, for example) and have lots of variety.
And thats really it. Everything else is either not that creative or is just flat out bad.
Heres the bad:
1. The freaking BATS! Anybody who plays should know what I mean. The bats are not fun at all and are extremely annoying.
2. Enemy difficulty. For some reason, the bats are by far the most difficult enemy to face. The skeletons would be second, and the big troll thing with the crystal back is by far the easiest enemy to face. Uhhhh, hello? The biggest baddest enemies should be the hardest! Not bats!
3. Story isnt bad, but it isnt great either.
4. The puzzles are pretty easy to figure out. I understand its not a pure puzzle game, sort of a hybrid between a fighting sidescroller and a puzzler, but I believe the puzzles could be tougher (the longest Ive spent on any puzzling moments is like 15 seconds), and when you have a character like the wizard (all he can do is make boxes and build bridges. Worthless in fighting), I think the puzzles should be better.
5. Xbox controller connection is HORRIBLE. Please improve your controller default settings.
6. The enemies glitch a lot. Ive found Ive gottan hit by an enemy, when the enemys animation stayed standing (didnt swing his sword or anything). This has happened on multiple occasions.
7. The enemy melee guys seem to have longer range than they should. This is probably a peronal opinion, but it feels like they should be much closer to me before they can swing and attack.
8. Very little variety of enemies. Everything is either bats or skeletons with the occassional crystal troll thing. The game tends to start feeling very repetitive with slight differences (now you can cast TWO bridges at once!)
Glad to see others are having better experiences than I am, however =)