hiya , sadly ive already given up on this - not because its bad , just because its too flawed for me .... checkpoints that respawn you with about 6 enemies attacking you is never good , not respawnimg with full health also sucks , enemies off screen firing at you so there are random bullets coming at you is also a pain ! and some of the enemies placements make it really hard to get a shot in before they hit you ...
struggled with the jump mechanics at a few points as well , especially the disappearing platforms , there seemed to be some sort of delay limiting the jump height so often ended up missing them and ending up in the acid below
finally , losing the upgrade you had before dying makes it extremely difficult to carry on forward - the upgrade was there for a reason im guessing ?
so moving forward is almost impossible without it and i havent tried backtracking so im not sure if they are gainable again ?
as i said , not a bad game at all - i like the movement , flow and style but not the gameplay
its very hard from the start ! i had to go to the extra health almost straight away , but when you respawn at a checkpoint after dying it only gives you 3 parts of health and all the previous enemies respawn around you ... this leads to you taking a hit or two straight away before you can do anything .
also , after respawning you lose any upgrade you had making it even harder !
well we will have to agree to disagree on WASD being the standard now but ive been gaming for about 40 years and it wasnt when i started ... and i dont think my origional post was insulting at all - im entitled to my opinion just as you are .
i would disagree that the arrows is uncommon nowadays , loads of games on here use them as standard - in fact ALL pico 8 games use them ! look at the big games such as ori , hollow knight etc and they all use them ( but have the option to change if required )
if your on a laptop like me i dont have the space around me for an external mouse so have to use the trackpad , hence its awkward... im also left handed but have grown up gaming all my life using arrows so switching hands is difficult !
before WASD started to become popular the standard layout for for direction controls was arrow keys , and for actions is space to jump , Z and X for the other stuff . if you use mouse its very awkward to play on a laptop , and using 2 different input methods just complicates things ... look at other games , lots use the keys ive sugested here
i got 17 flowers and 2 extra items before i quit - couldnt finish 2 rooms , going vertical and extra push were extremely hard and i couldnt complete them (and i must have missed one room !) ...also glad you put in the ability to change the controls as they were completely wrong for me .
one thing that was annoying was having to press a key every time i reached the edge of a screen to transition to the next - it spoiled the flow if you were trying to speed through back to an area from a dead end especially.
ok so sadly im giving up on this game which is a shame as i love the style and the art but that dash jump is just too hard to pull off accurately - half of the time it doesnt seem to trigger then the other half of the time it doesnt work properly and you just end up falling off a platform and dying or having to do the whole section again which is way too annoying .
i dont mind when levels get tough but when the core mechanics are so fiddly / dont work half the time then thats too much for me .
yeah been trying that but even if i can get the dash to trigger it just falls off the platform and gets nowhere need the other side ... do i need to keep the jump button pressed after triggering the dash ?
must have spent a good 30 minutes trying it , about 100 tries and not once been able to pull it off !
nice game but had to give up after reaching the top of the tower - it doesnt save the coins you have got doing the left hand section when you pass the checkpoint again and if you die you have to go back and try to get them all over again which is annoying... in fact its the same for all checkpoints , if you visit them again after getting coins they should be saved !
keyboard controls are absolutely awful and the change screen doesnt work - it just freezes up . you need to add changing the movement keys as well as most games use arrow keys for the movement , not as action keys ... unplayable for me as it is !
thats super hard - i gave up after the 1st checkpoint as its too difficult to judge the jump height accurately to get on the arrow platform , end up falling through it most of the time !
