Is this your first ever playthrough? I feel your pain tho. It's not even just the difficulty of The Lost City, it's moreso that the level is so long. You can't make mistakes! This is even more difficult on the original ps1.

Yeah the level feels long and I definitely agree that it is way more difficult in the original. Especially when I learned that you can't mess up in the N. Brio bonus level or you have to restart the whole thing.