Yeah I just looked there, I've been sprinting by them!
Just beat The Queen. Time to start easing off the assists and/or adding a boss cell. When it says it reduces health fountains I'm guessing it's just every other "path to.." levels it pops up in?
Okay got the ground smesh rune. Unlocking more weapons. It keeps going and going and going. Rapidly approaching my all-time list now, have nothing but a blast playing this.
Try a reinstall maybe. I haven't played it for a while but when I did it was on Switch and load times were nowhere near that. I remember it taking ages to load on a cold boot, but not between runs.
My launch-ish model struggles from to time, which usually manifests itself in stuttering. Clearing the cache helps with certain games. Did wonders for Will of the Wisps.
Mines is a launch switch and has been absolutely fine with Dead Cells. I'd recommend a delete and reinstall as you may have updates on the console memory/sd memory and vice versa and dlc gubbins too, there's been a lot that's came out for it. May be slightly fried on your console, give it a rejiggle.
Agree with Gav on the Dead Cells thing, agree with DS on the EShop thing. As someone who likes to scroll all the way through the 1195 games on sale, it's pretty fucking annoying that it often can't load anything past halfway and then suddenly refreshes back to the top. PS4 PSN was awful for that too, seems a lot better on PS5 thankfully.
Beat the Queen and her three fucking stooges earlier. Golden scissors V-L were stupidly powerful to beat the three twats, along with Wolf Trap VIII-S. Then picked up a baseball bat VIII-S as the drop from them and killed Queenie on my first attempt with it - 9k+ criticals with it and the traps.
Love this game, but going to give it a rest for a while. There's nothing I haven't done except start a boss cell run.