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Big improvement to the presentation since I last played but the gameplay feels like a step down, it's just way too easy and I only failed by dying on purpose after doing the same thing over and over with no apparent difficulty curve after the first few waves.
Gearing feels like less of a necessity than before, the kamikaze ships are too slow.
The gears UI indicator is a bit too subtle, I only noticed it after a few minutes playing.
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Harmon:i:cReally fun, I probably played this for a good 40 minutes trying out both very easy and very hard mode. Is it a correct assumption that the ship simply has less health on very hard? Because it felt like regenerating health was a lot easier compared to very easy. I also used a pretty abusive strategy: boost out of circle, gear down to shoot, gear up to dodge, repeat. I think this is a common problem with twin stick shooters where the strongest strategy is to simply kite the enemies while shooting at them. If you had enemies trying to sneak up from behind, or teleporting etc. But yeah great game, I'm looking forward to the story mode.
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Dungeon GameThe ship's health isn't changed between difficulties. What changes is the enemy's health, rate of fire, movement speed, and damage. So a little bit of everything. I'm aware of the kiting abusing strategy, but hopefully that will be fixed when I upgrade enemy AI for levels. I'm glad you enjoyed it enough to play it for 40 minutes! Looking forward to what we can show you next demo day, for sure.
Very fun game, man.
When I realized the penalty/reward system for changing gears, everything opened up a bit and I enjoyed it a lot.
I dislike how the enemies fade when killed, as with so many things going on, it's hard to even tell if you've fully killed something during a big fight. The sound is super loud above everything else too, which doesn't actually solve the problem, but makes it so you can't hear a single other noise, considering enemies are always dying, that noise never goes away and you can't actually hear missiles or important cues.
Those are my only complaints, everything else seems solid and improved from last demos. good luck with the rest of development!
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