Yeah I'm pretty bummed that they made this so easy!  At the same time though if Elika didn't save you every time you fell you would see "game over" a lot.  And that's not necessarily due to carelessness; you have to have QUICK REACTIONS the first time you run a course so you fuck up a lot.  This game eliminates the trial and error thing that a lot of games do which is good, but it's at the expense of any actual challenge which is pretty lame.  I think they should have just thrown in the time manipulation from the last PoP trilogy because that really was the best game mechanic ever.

Either way though I like this game.  The graphics are really really really good and as far as I'm concerned it's still pretty fun to jump around on shit even if it really just boils down to timing my button presses correctly.  And the combat is fun too, although I really wish that you could actually die from it.  Oh well!  I like it any way.