I like the concept, I personally feel like the movement is too simple for this kind of difficulty. I think the last level had a clever idea, but figuring out what I needed to do the rest boiled down to cutting the corners as precisely as I can to not bump into the, in my opinion, oversized hitboxes of the spikes. It felt like a rage game at parts, which would probably have worked without the checkpoints.
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Thanks for playing and for the feedback!
I had toyed with the idea of a dash that gave you a bit snappier movement and allowed you to cancel fly eating. It's great feedback and I'm looking forward to playing with it a bit more.
I actually didn't want to include spikes in the game, and even with them in, I agree that they are a bit large! The idea was to introduce more side effects to eating flies, for example growing big enough to not be bothered by walking on spikes, or too big to be attacked by birds.
I'm curious, which parts felt the most like a rage game, if you don't mind saying?
Mostly in the last three levels where you kept having to do the really precise parts only to get to new territory and die because you didn't know what to do exactly. Compare it to Getting over it where you have to risk falling if you want to gain information on how you climb, but after falling it then takes a lot of precision to get back to where you were.
For example, in the third to last level you finally make it through the frustrating first bit where you keep jumping into the spikes, only to grab one wrong firefly, meaning you have to do the first bit again.
Another way it sometimes feels like a rage game is the way you have to hold full right in a lot of jumps. If you play a Mario game for example there are barely any jumps that you have to fully commit to to only barely make it. In fact, in Mario games almost all jumps are possible to make without running. In your game these jumps feel rather similar to rage games where after having commited to a move you have to watch in pain how you're just short. In some jumps the double jump helps though.
Thanks for reading!