WOA Thanks for the in depth reply holy!!

I somehow actually never have played The End is Nigh before! (it's been on my backlog for years now) The idea of ledge-grabbing came from Silksong's implementation of it (since i've played through it recently) and i really wanted to try my hand at making something similar to it ^v^

The ledge-snapping hitbox is definitely something that i should have tweaked more thoroughly, i think i ended up making the hitboxes too big (since i feared that it would be too difficult to reach the ledges otherwise) but it ended up being TOO generous and making you grab ledges even when you don't want to x)
This is the first actual "platformer" i've made so i'm learning a lot from all the feedback i've been receiving here ^^

The last level ("pien") is the only level in which i've really explored making the clock go counter-clockwise (Column introduces this as well but it's not really gameplay-changing in this one), the funny thing is that the clock's movement is completely random there " (due to time constraints, i finished tweaking stuff until the very last hour of the jam) but i feel like the real fun of the game (like you said) would/will be memorising the pre-made patterns of the clock/music instead of just reacting to the clock moving randomly (like what i did for the "Pien")

There's a ton of fun ideas that could be explored here i do agree (i did want to do some polyrythm stuff initially but ran out of time, i've got like zero experience in polyrythmic music-making), i also wanted to add some other obstacles like exhaust vents that send burning smoke every x beats, a bell tolling through the entire level every dozen of seconds or so, cogs that send you flying around...etc 

I do really like how the concept turned out and i do feel like i could flesh it out into a more complete game eventually, we'll just have to see if i end up finishing it one day x)

Thanks for playing! I'm super happy that so many people are trying my little game out, it makes my heart flutter from the happiness xD

I've been getting a lot of people telling me the ledges feel clunky and it's definitely true x), the hitboxes are way bigger than they should be, looking back at them.

The songs are really short so i had to limit the health the player has ! Else most people could have just tanked through the damage and ignored the clock.
Two hearts isn't enough though i do agree, three hearts seems like the sweet spot to make the game less unforgiving while still retaining the feeling of stress when the ticking clock gets closer and closer🤔

I kind of understand why do so many games use yellow paint and arrows to guide to player now yeah x) Clear and simple to understand directions on where to go seem to be really important seeing how many people are struggling 🤔

(even without adding arrows/paint, i should have made the light coming from the level transition brighter (to indicate it wasn't just blocked off) (it's barely noticeable looking back at it))

And i should just have hidden the level selection cog when first starting to game, seeing how people kept struggling to find out how to interact with the one that's already activated in the level select x)

Great feedback! Thanks a lot!

Argh it's another one of those situations where i end up tell myself "why didn't i think of that???"
Of course having to repeat the intro feels bad -_- (especially with the length of the intro cutscene and the short platforming section beforehand)

As for the difficulty ! I definitely agree that the game could have used a more lenient first level, i always seem to underestimate how difficult the levels/challenges i create are for most people (since i spend a lot of time playing difficult platformers/games)

I feel like i could have explained the wall/latch jumps better since it's as simple as just holding the Jump button during the ledge-grabbing animation, which in turn will automatically make you do said Wall/Higher Jump -x-
The lack of visual/audio feedback and a clear and simple explanation is probably why most people struggle with it, it's not that complicated i swear 😭🙏

Thanks for trying the game and for the great feedback ^v^ 

I don't know how i missed the "holding click spins gear twice" bug during the 4 days during which i created the game, that alone shows how important getting people to playtest your game is x)

Issues with the controls seem to be a problem for a good amount of folk here, platformer controls aren't something i was too knowledgable about so mistakes were made ^^

I need to learn how to make actually good tutorials i think 🤔