I really appreciate the new take on item gating. Like, in Prime, you had a hole, later you get the morph ball, and now you can get through the hole. Simple stuff, but here, you'll traverse like a third of the first area of the map before you get to the first proper gating item, and pass a ton of places you can't reach yet. Once you reach the new item, you'll double down on the entire third of the map, discover another third, another ton of places you can't reach ... it's very cool. It requires you to really pour over the map and plan ahead, it feels very rewarding to figure the world layers out, it's like the map itself is a puzzle.
. Now I'm gone again because I'm scared of spoilers. 
