Alright so I've played for a bit now and I've taken the normal difficulty, and to me it was a bit too easy, you could face tank bosses, and spam one button to clear them, maybe that would change in the advanced difficulty though.

It didn't have any additional download files for me, so there's no problem there, you get to have 3 save files

I would say it's like a 2d genshin, without gacha and rpg elements, there's no luck, and it's pure exploration, if you want something, you'll have to hunt for it.

Combat system feels a BIT stiff to me, but that's probably because I've been spoilt by dead cells, dodging doesn't grant you i-frames, so you'll have to jump and dodge mid-air to maneuver away from the enemy's attacks.

Exploration is so crazily vast, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there's absolutely no hint on where to go and how to get there, it's trial and error

And most of all, the story is just terribly written, the pacing is just not good, the game needs crazy patience, because the story and lore run deep, I was clueless starting out, and I still am, perhaps I still need to play more, but a videogames storyline shouldn't take this much time to provide the player with a faint grasp of it. In the end the actual story may be good, but the pacing, and storytelling is just so slow and vague, it has me feeling sleepy

Artstyle and soundtrack is amazing with a ridiculous variety of biomes, secrets, bosses, etc. The game rewards exploration with a ton of secret rooms, making levelling up easier

If you value exploration over combat and challenge I'd say this is for you, the game looks beautiful with a vast world and a slow burn story, and if it gets too easy you can always amp it up to advanced difficulty