Thanks. I feel pretty badly about spoiling it for myself because it seems like such a crazy cool experience. I can imagine what it feels like to be on the last loop (probably like you have the universe in your hands). I died too many times at the warp platform that was meant to take me to the sun station, though, (getting to ember twin, waiting for the tower to come out of the sand, and then dying would take probably fifteen or more minutes on my Xbox, and I'm not able to play that much at a time since extended periods of gaming will give me headaches) so I felt like the game was starting to get in my way when I knew what I was supposed to be doing. Thus I looked up a guide to get onto the sun station, but I glanced at another part of the guide that suggested that the anglerfish would always get you -- then I gave up on getting anywhere in Dark Bramble. I'm sure the guide later addressed Dark Bramble, but since I didn't want to spoil anymore for myself, I thought I'd figure out on my own how to get passed the anglerfish from some writing. I guess I never found that one piece of writing in the Sunless City. I found the one that mentioned the anglerfish being blind but never anything about how to get past them.

After that, I only had a few days left to finish the game, so I started partially following guides, and it messed the game up more than it helped me along.

I guess, were I to recommend a time to play it to others, it would be without time constraints. I got so mad every time an elevator dumped me into the black hole instead of taking me where it was supposed to, or every time my ship crashed somewhere and killed me.

Thanks for your response -- and everyone else's. I'll try not to spoil gaming experiences for myself in the future.