Super cute game! Loved how colorful it was. I got all the upgrades and it did exactly what I was hoping for! >:D
I was completely invincible towards the end making a ring of death around me while hitting the boss. Getting the mirror bomb upgrades trapped myself a few times, so I had to stay mindful about how I was using it. Easy to work around though. And it was so cool seeing the next level through the whiteout bombs!
The little RNG ink splatters had great usages too! I'd be a goner without them. Best ones were getting health back, the total clearing of everything in view, especially paired with the magnet really made the game way more enjoyable. The one that made me bigger, the gummy bear, I was a little lost on — later realizing I could just crush everything under my feet, haha! Whoops! Too paranoid about getting hit to try it, but a great addition! It was still fun to think that the ink splatters could also harm me, making me more of a target to the enemies being in such a big form. (That's how I originally thought about it, not realizing what it did lol).
The enemies were a little hard to see the more they got erased. And those pesky dragonflies man!
Overall, cute art, great mechanics, and an enjoyable story! I could see myself playing it again for the upgrades ♥
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Thanks for playing and the kind words. The gummy bear was originally just invincibility and when adding effects and sounds to make the power ups feel better our teammate made you grow big. Then he had the idea of making you able to stop enemies. He had unknowingly combined invincibility with another power up idea but it was better the way he did it. There wasn't anything that really explains what the power ups do and I agree the gummy bear isn't the most obvious. All the others have more immediate and obvious outcomes.
I also like making a wall of death with all the upgrades. I really want to solve the getting stuck in your attacks. It was a tough problem I tried a few things to solve but nothing really worked well enough to keep.