If you are trying the game, you should know the following quirks beforehand:

- Move controls appear tilted because they are based on cardinal directions 
rather than on the camera angle (it’s easy to get used to, just different than 
usual) and you cannot move diagonally (that's both a blessing and a curse). 

- The main character is weaker than your typical overpowered video game wizard; 
he has no way to fight by himself and can only use magic potions for spells (in 
limited quantity but they have unlimited duration for a single room: blue is 
invincibility (except to floor spikes), purple destroys all objects and
monsters, yellow freezes time and objects and green reveals invisible tiles). 
You start with 2 doses of each and there are plenty of refills to find (each 
gives +2 doses, no maximum).

- You will need the magic boots to jump two tiles high. 

- Watching the title screen demo will give you some serious clues about what you
can do in the game. 

- You can hold the jump button to jump repeatedly (nice!) and you can pull off 
some crazy jumps by picking up or placing blocks at the same time as you jump
(also works mid-air).

- There are no saves/passwords, but the game is pretty short (to give an idea, 
without using any glitches, the speedrun records are 5m35s for any% and 12m13s 
for 100% completion). So if you ever get a game over, you can return to where 
you were very quickly (if you can remember the way!). And that's if you didn't 
pick up any "credits" (those are temporary saves plus they restore your lives 
and give you 2 doses of each potion).