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I think I want to say the things I didn’t like with this one. (Spoilers and lengthy comment)

The game starts fine, when the level of the ice flame started is when I started to have trouble. I got to the flame in 2 ways, one risky jumping through the vines and landing almost in the flame platform, and one through the fungus. When I wanted to activate the lever to go through the door, I shot my flame instead of poking the lever, and it got stuck in a hole where I couldn’t recover it, so I got stuck there until I jumped into the abyss to respawn.

At least when you get the new flames and activate the flames around the level, you keep it so you don’t have to do it again, which I liked.

The difference between the frozen vine and the normal vine while having the ice flame isn’t too clear for me and for that reason I didn’t know I froze the vine, got stuck in the level. Maybe because I was tired when I played the game, I didn't realize.

The level with the pink flame also I struggled with because I didn’t realize that shooting the flame and poking the stuff with the flame have different strength of the effect it applies or it feels like that, so I got stuck until by accident I poked the fungus with the pink flame and moved it. And honestly at this point I was a bit annoyed at trying and shooting at stuff haha.

(Until now I see there is a playthrough to show you how to progress so maybe next time I check better the page of the game. And see that the fungus part of the 2nd level is easier than I thought hahaha.)

The final part is good since you already know how the 3 flames work. The only problem with that part is, you can set up everything before the fight, then activate it and do multiple damages in a short time.

And not a fan of not getting your flame back if it gets stuck in the ground in a place far away from you, sometimes I shoot from long distances and stay on the ground making you to respawn.

I liked the boss song and the fight in general, simple but using all the flames was good.

I liked the interactions between the flames, you can break ice stuff with the pink flame, moving the tomato with the flame and ice flame was fun and can give you more game, like moving it through a harder way. I liked the blue barrier in the pink flame level because it turns your flame to another element, so I would like to see that barrier in more places.

The fungus are ok and the length of the levels are also ok. I enjoyed some parts and it was an ok puzzle game, maybe putting a small example directly next to the new flame would be good since you show more easily what it can do. The sock saying you should pay attention to how it affects the environment can be good, but a more easy example can help the person more to figure out the power of the flame.

It was good to play this game, I can see creative parts and I liked the visuals of the game. It was nice for your 1st published game :D 

Thanks for sharing :)

(Oh, I didn't include this in the main review but, I had a bug with the fungus in the ice flame level, I don't know how to replicate it, but I shot with the normal flame the little fruit in the rock, then I jumped into the fungus and had a weird collision with the edge of the earth platform and my jumping, it send me a lot higher, I jumped again into the fungus and never fall down for how high I went hahaha, I only respawned because I shot my flame and got too dark that the game respawned me.)

Thank you so much for the feedback!

I totally get the frustrations of how some of the systems and puzzles work, I already have an update queued to adress most of those. I'm glad you managed to complete the game regardless! One question tho, there's supposed to be dialogue from the NPC on the purple flame level explaining the recall pads that allow you to recall your torch, did the dialogue not trigger for you, or did the pad itself not work?

Oh,  about the pads,  those worked well and I was happy they got introduced because from there my flame worked better, and the NPC give me the advice :D 

But before that level, sometimes my flame got far away from me because I tried to lit the candle from far away since I saw it, like the ice flame level, I tried to shot in arc to lit the candle and I managed to stuck the flame between the candle and the barrier. This was before I learned that I could froze the vines.

Or the level where you learn that the tomato can push you, you can see the 1st candle from the start of the level so I tried to lit with another shot in arc and I did it but after a few tries where my flame got stuck far away. This was before I learned that the tomato explode and can push you.

So it's more a case where the player (me) don't want to try more but sees the goal and just throw the thing until it works or I just want to see if I can lit the candles for far away with sick trickshot lol (because lazy to think how the actual solution is)

I'll play again the game when the game updates, feel free to ping me or sending a reply to try it out :)

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Got it, I'll try and fix that in the next update. Thanks again!