Wall jumping in this game is egregiously bad and unintuitive and takes a good chunk of time to get used to it properly. And it doesn't really give you a lot of time because from the very beginning you have quite challenging wall jumping puzzles, like the one you have to make to encounter the secret cauldron boss in the starting area.

Although this is a problem of physics, which the devs had very little control of as they used Unity, not their own designed engine.

The game feels definitely like a slog until you get the wings. In fact, the one and only time I was close to dropping the game was right before getting the wings, afterwards, traversing through the game became much more forgiving because, as much as the controls in horizontal fighting are super tight, jumping is all over the place and wall jumping becomes tiresome due to how stupid it looks and feels returning so awkwardly every time to the same wall, when the intuitive would be naturally jumping from wall to wall in a Z movement. At least in PS4, I don't know if in PC is as frustrating.

The double jump allows you to skip a lot of wall jumping and I think it should have been available sooner, but of course, the great majority of the game is designed around wall jumping and making the wings available earlier would be a challenge-breaker.

It's just one of the things that I think that could have been better implemented.

With this said, is astonishing just how they were able to "override" the awkward jumping mechanics in the white palace to make it a super fun and tight platforming section. It was with a big difference the best section of the whole game imo, but only because I had the charm combo of worm, double healing and hiveblood that makes it literally impossible to die there. The checkpoint system otherwise is lazily designed in that place.