I know I'm joining this conversation a bit late but I cramming my way in anyway
That game was so disappointing. And half the time I wasn't even sure what the hell I was supposed to be doing.
Yeah, I'm the same way, for some reason if I can't beat a game like that, then I feel like the game is smarter than me or something.
While the isometric gameplay was a good idea to put a naturally free-roaming console platformer onto a handheld, it did however result in huge navigation difficulties that made it difficult to keep track of where you should be going. Put that on top of the ridiculous requirements to get to the following world hubs and the fact that you practically need EVERYTHING before even fighting the final boss once, not to mention the ridiculous difficulty of the Speedways even in comparison to the console versions, and you have a painfully hard collectathon that may even make the guys at Rareware blush. I have only ever 100%'d that game without cheats once, and even then I had to look up maps >_>