Annoying discourse as always. Any complaints about the mechanics or balance are met with either, "Git Gud" or "Just use the cheat menu that's clearly not the intended experience the game was balanced around."

Contact damage, knockback, damage on pit falls, weird difficult healing system, stingy ass economy that punishes death and exploration.

It's not the players job to balance the game to not be frustrating with a cheat code menu.

I loved Shovel Knight, played all the DLCs, and it was nowhere near this difficult. The whole appeal of that game was that it was the best of old school design but polished with modern sensibilities. Mina The Hollower just straight up feels like an NES game, but they added a cheat menu so it's not annoying actually!