its good

me when im on the greatest run of my life but get crushed by a moving block or sum and die in an instant

The difficulty scaling in this game is awful compared to previous titles and should only be bought if you really want an improved version of 1 or are willing to use mods, which is a shame as nearly every other aspect of this game is amazing.

The first area extremely difficult compared to nearly everything else in the game only challenged by Neo Babylon (area 4) and alternative harder paths such as the volcano or alternate endings, but those are only hard because you'll so infrequently reach those areas and it'll take many tries to properly learn them - which is fair, those are meant to be harder. But having the first area so brutally punishing is laughably terrible game design compared to the perfection of the rest of the game.

The music focuses on different aspects than the first Spelunky's, removing multiple tracks and instead focusing on the overall quality and transitions of the tracks, which works out surprisingly well. But they also gave the first area the worst music - the area you'll likely be spending 90% of your time in unless you use shortcuts (preferably with mods).

The gameplay however is (almost) a huge step up in every regard - all of the stages have their own quests which are all interwoven into one much larger reward, the alternate endings, which I won't cover. Not only that, after every boss there are also two stages to choose between, making the game far less linear than the other Spelunky games. Both with unique rewards, challenges, enemies, graphics and music. Which is a shame, because the harsh welcome of the first area and it having arguably the most important quest item literally drags all of this work down.

Maybe I do "suck" but when your difficulty curve starts extremely high, then flatlines before spiking again, it just screams poor game design.
If you are happy with a bad start that gets far better, this is the game for you. If you are happy to get mods to get past the bad start, this game is for you. But if you don't want to put up with these and are still interested in the game, play the classic Spelunky for free first[spelunkyworld.com] or get the remake of the classic, Spelunky hd. The curves there actually make sense.